Unless you are sporting a pair of headphones, it’s hard to look stylish with a pair of earphones. Beats has tried that with their earphones by giving it a distinctive flat and red cable, but many other manufacturers have since copied that style, making it less unique in the process. That being said this doesn’t mean that manufacturers can’t stop trying.
For those in the market for a new pair of stylish/funky earphones, you might be interested in the Glow earphones. As the name suggests, these are earphones where the cable will actually glow/light up and pulse to the rhythm of the music you are listening to. It probably won’t be as obvious in the daytime, but if you’re out at night for a run or maybe a party, then these earphones could come in handy.
While its use will probably make more sense for joggers at night, the Glow earphones aren’t really designed to be used as a fitness earphones, but rather they are marketed as a fashion/lifestyle product, but who’s to say how you use them, right? The earphones glow courtesy of Corning’s Fibrance light-diffusing fiber, which is a piece of optical fiber that is thin and flexible enough to slip into the cables of an earphone.
The headphones will also come with a inline remote control that will allow the user to answer their calls, send canned responses to text messages, activate voice control, and control the volume of their music/calls. Interestingly enough its creators have designed the earphones for Android users in mind and have reserved the more advanced features for Android devices.
They do state that if they can raise enough money, they will bring an iOS developer on board to give it the same advanced features as Android. The Glow earphones come in red, green, or blue and if you’d like to help with their Kickstarter campaign, head on over to their Kickstarter page for the details.
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