Split- Stand-alone earbud player controled with your Teeth

Split is the world’s only earbuds with no strings attached, so you can finally listen to your music without cables or dongles around your neck.

Split works without any cables and without Bluetooth. Is a hands free player: You change track and volume with gentle “bite clicks”.

How it works:

“Each Split earphone contains a small circuit board, a button cell battery, a memory chip, a processor and a few other components necessary to play quality digital audio. By synchronizing the right and left earphone with the use of high precision crystal clocks, the two earphones play in unison without being physically connected and without exchanging a continuous stream of radio waves. The two earphones only exchange a short near-field signal when track or volume are changed. This reduces the amount of radiation your head and body are exposed to by more than 1,000 times as compared to a Bluetooth streaming headset. To detect  bite clicks Split is equipped with a 3-axis accelerometer.”

 

Front side of the flexible circuit inside Split showing the 3-axis accelerometer and the precision crystal clock

 

Back side:
1. flash memory
2. The ARM processor with integrated analog peripherals and high speed operational amplifiers

via kickstarter