this is the eye microphone no it doesn't go in your eye
it goes in your eye product so this is
compatible with um iPhones iPads and
iPods it performs it can make it so that they can perform double duty as a
powerful digital voice recorder so what the whoops sorry guys so so what this is
is an incredible High sensitivity 3.5 mm
four pole omnidirectional condenser microphone for the iPhone iPad and iPod
so pretty much you're replacing the crummy microphone that's built into your
IE device with this one for better voice pickup so a great use for something like
this would be uh oh yeah look at that they've even got a listing if I was
going to say business meetings but they've got that on there ideal for voice recording for example lectures
interviews and business meetings um so for example you've got uh Speak Easy has
software that allows you to convert
recorded voice messages into text so you
could use that or speak naturally speak easy dragon something okay whatever
someone who remembers what the piece of software is that takes uh your voice and
turns it into text please leave that in the comments that piece of software it's
cheap it's like five bucks for the iPod
um would ideally be able to understand
your voice better and convert it to text more easily especially in the context of
a multivoice environment like a meeting or lecture or interview okay features
incredible High sensitivity RF shielding compact design and premium wind screen
is included okay uh specifications are here so you can feel free to pause and
read that should you so desire don't take this out when it's too cold outside
and we've also got a list of the products it is designed for although I
suspect it would work just fine in any microphone Jack so let's go ahead and
open this baby up
what I'll have to do for you guys is do a couple of audio recording
samples where I use the integrated microphone on my iPhone 4 versus the IM
microphone so there's the premium wind screen made of foam I screen the wind
for
you also works for that whatever that is
all right and this is the IM microphone
itself
so it has like a very solid feeling construction to it there's the
microphone
okay there's the Jack here's what it
looks like if you put the wind screen on
it oh it's like totally wearing an
afro there we go that's on now put that in there now your iPhone
has an afro okay I'll do the audio samples in a minute don't forget to
subscribe to L's Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer
videos so we tested from a distance of about 3et on the IM microphone and
besides um it being a lot louder with the IM microphone versus the integrated
one the integrated microphone actually was more clear so it seems like we're
probably using it in the wrong application we were so close to it in a
quiet enir maybe that's not what it's intended for so I figured what if I go further away
and do an audio test instead so the IM microphone is sitting there on the table
you can just point at it okay and I'm going to go over here
and I'm going to say something so this is testing the IM
microphone at a distance of however far away this
is and this is testing oh okay he hadn't
hit it yet and this is tting testing the
integrated microphone from a distance of however far away I am right
now okay so I'm just going to show you guys the testing here so this is uh one
audio clip that has both the IM microphone and the integrated microphone
from a greater distance in it go over here and I'm this is with the ey
microphone so this is testing the ey microphone at a distance of for far away
this is
and this is testing the integrated microphone from a distance of however
far away I am right now so you can
clearly here that the integrated
microphone does not pick up as much sound as the IM microphone although what
that does mean is it results in a slightly more clear sounding recording
but it's all a matter of what is your objective if your objective is to catch
more of the Ambient sound overall more sound then yes the IM microphone is far
more sensitive in the integrated mic so if you do use your iPhone iPod iPad any
kind of IE device for a substantial amount of voice recording then something
like this might not be a bad little pickup