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it's no secret that I struggle with sleep at least at night and ever since

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the birth of my firstborn back in 2012 I've resorted to using earphones to help

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me catch some z's but everything that I've ever used has at least one flaw

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Wireless has been a big Improvement I used to chew through Sennheiser ie80s

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and cables like Tic Tacs but even with those I've still dealt with Comfort

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issues retention issues and accidental touch control activations in the middle

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of the night even my current daily drivers have a fatal flaw they only last

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about 5 hours before needing to be Juiced in their charging case Oslo who

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reached out to sponsor this LTT video claims that their new product addresses

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all of my issues bold but I've also been

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using them for a couple of days and while I wouldn't call them perfect I

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will say that they've the best feature set that I've seen so far these little

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guys are the appropriately named sleep buds they don't get a feature film about

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a dog but these tiny buds are packed with special features that might make

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them less ideal for daily use earphones

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but perfect for folks that are trying to get a better night's sleep let's take a

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look at what's included obviously you won't get quite the level of care

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package that we did hoodie handwritten

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note is this pills ah calming pillow

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Mist but what you will get is this well

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this the smart case which has some cool features we'll get into later the Sleep

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buds the El four sets of ear tips including the ones that are

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pre-installed a USBC cable and a delicious

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snack oh never actually put them in my mouth before don't do that it's the tips

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that address the number one issue for a lot of people comfort and retention

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other earbuds do include silicone tips but there's often still a part of them

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that comes in contact with your skin that's made of harder materials especially if you're a s side sleeper

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like me not the case here and the super

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low profile of the earbuds themselves helps to reduce the pressure that you

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feel on your ear as well movie Magic big reveal time I've already been using

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these for sleeping but um sure let's put

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them in and and and try them on

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camera okay this is really not representative this pillow is so thick

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do we have anything that's more like a normal pillow anything would be comfortable with this convenient ear

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donut they isolate shockingly well I don't even have anything playing through

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them right now and I think you said LT something pillow yeah I was going say

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the N oh you got the backpack back there here we go can confirm they are flat

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also can confirm they are extraordinarily difficult to get out of

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your ears like you got to you got to really

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want to get them out of there reach in

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grab the little silicone anchor piece

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and pull them out but make no mistake that's not a bad thing the comfort is

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really solid like something shoved in your ear canal is always going to feel

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like there's something in your ear canal especially if you're not used to it but

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this is about as good as I felt and more

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importantly they have not fallen out overnight yet my daily driver airpod Pro

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2os on the other hand fall out at least three times a week while sleeping Elijah

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who wrote this video and also has sleeping issues tried using these Buds

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and his first thought was he forgot they were in when he woke up because they

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didn't press against his ear and they stayed in all night it's a pretty

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similar system to what I've seen on some workout buds but way less bulky let's

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take the silicone tip off though and look at the device

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itself there you go that's it I think I've eaten pieces

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of corn that are bigger than that they are less than 1 cm wide in each

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Direction and my first thought after seeing these was they're probably going

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to sound like hot poo poo but they don't

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they're not streets ahead of audio file headphones or anything but the sound

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quality is reflective of the team that built them a group of x Bose Engineers

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who worked on the now discontinued Bose sleep buds which might explain the uh

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very similar looks now a small elephant

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in the room is the lack of active noise cancellation given that Bose is known to

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be a leader in the space and Oslo worked with Bose on licensing technology for

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this product we wanted to understand why the decision was made to leave it out

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when we jumped on a call with the engineers they explained that while

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canceling as much noise as possible can help with focusing on work sleeping with

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noise cancellation has been found to wake people up more in the middle of the

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night than something like a white noise machine for my part though I suspect it

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has more to do with maintaining the small form factor and with maximizing

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battery life and after using them I actually don't mind the trade-off the

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Sleep Beds create a very good seal in the ear canal which combined with their

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selection of ambient noises helps to very effectively muffle outside sound

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it's so effective that I can't put them in until Pillow Talk is 100% over

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because I will definitely miss that one last good night I love you which is

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going to earn me a shove in the backside I love you too hun it was the Sleep buds

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anyway your selected ambient noise gets loaded onto the Sleep buds themselves as

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a Vancouver boy I'm partial to Misty Rain but there's also fir crackling and

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a variety of other Brown noises which yes is what they're called the exact

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noises are not the important part right now though since they're working on adding more the big deal is the part

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about the sound being stored locally after you paired the Sleep buds to your

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phone this functionality allows the Sleep buds to be used in two ways

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Standalone with no connection to your phone or the same way that I use my

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regular Bluetooth earphones which is typically to listen to reruns of

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Adventure Time until I fall asleep after that things get super cool the Sleep

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buds will detect if your media playback stops for some reason Plex or it'll use

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its onboard sensors to Det determine if you've fallen asleep and it will switch

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over to your selected ambient audio track and so far it's been working a

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treat for me the well the first night I

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actually got woken up by my Ambient sound but I have since determined that

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that was a skill issue I didn't dial in the volume before going to bed so the

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sudden loud fir crackling sound which I also didn't configure on the first night

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a little alarming the other major stumbling block

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I hit was Bluetooth connectivity issues but once again it was down to not fully

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understanding the product in order to achieve their impressive and personally

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validated 10hour battery life Oslo is using Bluetooth LE or low energy the

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problem is that while many modern chipsets do support Bluetooth LE some

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phone makers notably Apple have not yet

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chosen to enable it in their firmware so Oslo is using kind of a hacky workaround

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the Sleep buds connect to your case using Bluetooth l

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and then the case connects to your phone using whatever your phone supports so I

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had some range issues when I was close to my phone but not close to the case

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and also when I put my arm over my face like this but um there's no fix for that

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issue because water is not good your

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body's full of water since we're on the subject of the case the Sleep buds

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magnetically snap in for charging taking about two and a half hours to reach a

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full charge and the case features light noise and temperature sensors that for

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now will only detect when you're sleeping to do that audio switch over

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thing but for the future Oslo plans to expand the information they look for so

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it'll be able to tell you if an ambulance drove by your window at 2: in

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the morning which caused you to wake up and it wasn't your stupid brain's fault

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that's not here yet but they're hoping to roll it out soon and they have

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committed that there will be no subscription fee for the functionality

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absolute bro move now there have been so many products pitched to us in the past

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that claim Better Health monitoring or better lifestyle that we've turned down

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or we've discontinued our partnership with because they have an outrageous or

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deceptive subscription model so it was pretty refreshing to hear the CEO say

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that quote they are pretty committed that the hardware the noise masking

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library and the sleep tracking are all part of the purchase price that doesn't

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mean there will never be a subscription but it does seem to at least indicate

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that you get to keep the functionality you paid for without getting rug pulled

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I hate that that's a w these days but it kind of is I also appreciate the W of

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being able to highlight both what's good and what's imperfect about these in

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spite of the sponsored nature of this video Oslo is not hiding that these are

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not a replacement for your fruit flavored ear beans the lack of on device

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volume control in particular is a bit of a downer for me and they don't expect me

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to say that I magically got an uninterrupted 8 hours with sleep buds

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what I will say though is that for the type of sleep aid that I need which

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which is comfortable all night noise blocking these are solid and I can see

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why so many people were jazzed to see the Sleep buds return if you guys

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enjoyed this video maybe check out the time that Alex and I tried to build a

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temperature controlled mattress topper