Shazam now lets you identify music while wearing headphones, the Apple-owned company announced this week.
You can open up the Shazam app, click to Shazam and then head back to TikTok.
Or, say you’re wearing headphones in a coffeeshop and want to know what song is playing in the café.
It’s worth noting that Shazam already allowed users to identify songs playing in apps, as it rolled out the ability to identify songs on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok last year.
But up until now, you couldn’t do so if you were wearing headphones.
Nwm (short for New Wave Maker and pronounced “noom,” a representative told me) makes headphones that use a similar technique to noise canceling, but kind of turned inside-out.
Instead of canceling out noise coming into your ear, the headphones cancel any noise they make that isn’t going towards you.
That’s usually not a problem with earbuds or closed-back headphones, which physically contain the sound they produce.
But nwm’s whole thing is that their headphones are more like a pair of small speakers right by your ears.
The chair is pretty normal looking for a gamer-type one, and you wouldn’t know it had speakers hidden in it.
I really wanted to hate the $2,000 earbuds I tried at CES Instead, I need to hide my credit card away so Breggz won't bankrupt meLook, anyone who is saying they’re going to start selling a pair of $2,000 studio monitor-quality in-ear headphones had better show up with the receipts.
I spoke with Breggz Audio‘s CFO, Jeroen van Els, to figure out what it was about these in-ear headphones that was so special.
From there, the company fell into a rabbit hole of creating the best possible in-ear headphones.
After the (admittedly brief) demo, van Els showed me the “transparency” mode, which meant he was able to talk to me while I was still wearing the earphones.
For professional artists needing lower latency, we’re working on solutions to be introduced later,” van Els shares.
The Swedish startup is announcing a number of partnerships that bring its Powerfoyle flexible solar cell tech to various products.
Ahead of the big event in Vegas, the company has announced a pair of headphones fueled by Powerfoyle tech.
There’s the over-ear Urbanista Los Angeles, which the company promises will deliver “virtually infinite playtime,” and the latest version of its Phoenix earbuds.
This is the second-generation Los Angeles product, following a pair released in 2021 that was among the first products on the market to integrate Exeger tech.
The company’s new Peltor brand headset also features a Powerfoyle cell built into its headband.
