Adopting a simple, innovative design that takes inspiration from the known gesture of putting your hand behind your ear to enhance the sound, the shape of he Batphones also simulates the ears of bats, which are perfectly shaped for frontal hearing due to the bat's sonarsystem.
Designed by Matthias Ries, these super cool looking Batphones ear extensions enhance any sound coming from in front of you, providing a cheap and fast solution when you need the volume turned up just a bit at movies, lectures, conferences or plays.
The Batphones are made from a single piece of injection molded plastic and are not meant to replace traditional in-ear hearing aides, they are rather designed for people with only slight difficulty hearing. They provide quite the stylish fashion accessory as well!
What's Driving This Trend
- Ear Extending Headphones
- Innovative design solution for people with only slight difficulty hearing
- Batphones
- Taking inspiration from the known gesture of putting your hand behind your ear to enhance the sound
- Frontal Hearing
- The shape of Batphones simulates the ears of bats which are perfectly shaped for frontal hearing.
Who This Affects Most
- Headphones
- The design of Batphones can be applied to traditional headphones to provide a stylish and effective solution to hearing difficulties.
- Fashion Accessories
- Batphones provide quite the stylish fashion accessory as well, suggesting an opportunity for disruption in the fashion industry.
- Event Production
- Batphones can be used as a cheap and fast solution when you need the volume turned up just a bit at movies, lectures, conferences, or plays, suggesting an opportunity for disruption in the event production industry.
