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A Wearable Subwoofer: Lofelt Basslet Hands On @ CES 2017

2017-01-06
yeah so um we're playing with what are we playing with today because you guys sent us a little information but I actually wanted to be surprised wild and amazed viable you have to offer here cool so we're local berlin-based start-up and we build the base level the base was basically nowhere was simple you know you listen to music on headphones and you can feel the bass and the music directly in your body okay so what's actually being what's actually in here that's creating this is like some sort of haptic pad or it's basically a miniaturized stuff mover so it's something called a vibrotactile actuator correcting that creates vibration but it's very different to the vibration that you know from a smartphone right phone only has like one frequency vibration that goes on origin whereas our tech is much more like a speaking fee of different reasons you know much more a wider dynamic range got range and also frequency actually all right so can we try it outside okay cool now I'm right-handed is that gonna mess me up am I getting like I'm an absolutely I'll be able to like eat or anything like that afterwards maybe that wasn't a part of the awesome I need music preference actually do you have any um have any like jazz I have some acoustic music on here okay surprise me let me see what you got right on top of something else Roenick first and then we research over to Eric so there are two buttons on here you can increase or decrease the intensity however you like it and otherwise just relax and enjoy the music oh that's cool and that's like really it's got a really sharp attack - exactly yeah now that's really sick so so this system is going through this is a cable that's attached and this is sending a signal wirelessly to here so we decided to go for an analog solution for anything that blocks into a head without me because that way it's compatible with everything like rice thank you for the music or like maybe Sony Walkman if you wanted to well except for the iPhone channel which doesn't have a headphone jack so that's our adapter right I mean this is this is kind of helping to create that subtle sense of like when you go to a club and you'd stand in front of the subs there and blow out your hearings a lot safer also let's actually to recreate that web experience but it's a similar it talks to the same sense busy right if you go to club you feel the music in your body and it's kind of simple so obviously you know a lot of people ask so how do you charge it there's no USB or anything on it we have the true volume buttons we design it in a way that you can use the true volume buttons as charging contacts oh cool so it just snaps to the sender you plug your microUSB to the sender then you charge both devices that's cool respectful and so because of this water resistance its platform so called IP forty-fourth okay be nice emerge Abul by a buddy's like ticket yeah I am nything and and what's the the battery life on a rubble normally used from experience now it's about 10 to 12 hours actually Wow if you crank up to maximum intensity is going to be more like 6 to 7 4 stars launching on 37th everytime US and UK and it's going to sell for 199 to 499 including shipping actually Kim can you fire up something else sure so here's an acoustic track just to give you a little more detail on like this is a Patti Smith song who I like that because it really is like I mean because with the electronic everything was so tight and so precise that the attack on that was really interesting here it's really interesting what you're doing with decay where they're like they have that bass combo yeah as your associative so the background actually being my man my bass player so for me you know the instrument is very tactile yeah I'm straying you feeling and when we built that technology we really wanted to match the accuracy to the real thing yeah all the string in your hand and you feel the vibration no that's cool and so I mean being an analog nut I like getting back into my vinyl collection everything I'm really excited about this process what was the thinking in going with this kind of a cabled solution over trying to utilize like bluetooth like bluetooth has become the big I phone 7 no headphone jack everybody's talking about Bluetooth headphones right now was this like a fidelity issue that you wanted to transfer that kind of a signal also I mean in the beginning you know we talk to a lot of music fans and we've done we think that the real music fans are of course like early adopters yeah and so we just talked to them and said hey you know what's your platform whether you listen to music what are your headphones look like and actually everyone was listening with cable headphones and they also the other thing they said is wow this is amazing but I want it I don't want to only hook it up to my phone I want to use it with my Playstation or whatever as the white is possible yeah and blue to this great but the headphone jack still you know despite Apple is still the most widespread standard air audio and then in the future will also work on supporting other standards well and you don't have to worry about the MacBook is the macbook still has a headphone jack so you're good there excellent you want you got to try it real quick on the 35 so it's it's nice and vocal ishes a little inside joke in the office who sometimes took that both baseless and see which one
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