If you're anything like me, there was a time when you thought wearable tech was
about to be the next big thing in consumer electronics.
Then 2017 happened and now you're just jaded AF because instead of having a
computer in your contact lens, all you've got is an endless sea of
inaccurate fitness trackers and smart
watches that make Homer Simpson look like a freaking genius. So, when I heard
about the Baselet, a subwoofer wristband
that promised to make you feel like you're surrounded by sound, I pulled in
enough internet for today and went to bed. But then I found out it was $200
and I thought, hm, this could be perfect fodder for useless tech over 100. So
then, are their claims completely
baseless, or is this little device about to shake
up the way you listen to music?
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The German engineered bass lit requires hardly any setup. Plug the sender into
your laptop or phone's headphone jack or dongle as it were. Then plug your
headphones into the sender. All the audio leaving your device passes through
the sender which routes the bass frequencies automatically to the IP 44
rated bracelet over low energy Bluetooth. No pairing shenanigans
whatsoever. The design is an understated
matte black with a plastic finish that's subjectively okay and a single LED
indicator light with two buttons for adjusting the intensity of your uh
experience. But good design is more than skin deep
and lowfelt, the makers of the bracelet, cared enough to make the sender double
as the unit's charger. And so to attach to the bracelet, you just magnetically
snap it on and the buttons are actually conductive contacts. It's an elegant
idea, even if it only takes a slight bump to disrupt the connection. The only
part of the bracelet's design that stands out as flawed is the silicone
wristband. It's pretty hard to put on, especially tightly, like the
instructions recommend. You should pretty much factor the replacement cost
into your purchase. Okay, then. So, you've got your beautifully designed
$200 vibrator strapped onto you, ready for the base psycho acoustic phenomenon
to trick your brain into thinking your whole body is being accosted by sound
waves. So, with your favorite tunes cranked, what does it actually feel
like? Well, just about exactly what you'd
expect. Your wrist and by extension part of your hand and ARM will vibrate along
with the music. But but wait, hold on. Don't don't click away yet. It's not
like taping a a vibrating cell phone to
your ARM. It's silent to the people around you. And there's variability in
the feel of the bass notes being pushed out. Like you can actually kind of
distinguish a plucked string from a kick
drum, for example. And per the
recommendation of the reviewer's guide, we gave it some more time. It's
apparently supposed to take a session or two for your brain to adapt and merge
the sound from your ears and the vibrations on your ARM into a single
experience. And I have to admit, my
skepticism aside, it does in fact happen
if you wear it for a little while. Particularly with the intensity kind of
somewhere in the mid level, the bass starts to feel less localized and it
becomes harder to distinguish whether what you're feeling is coming from the
music or from the little trinket on your wrist, which is pretty cool. But that
doesn't mean that the awareness that you're wearing a little subwoofer on
your ARM ever completely melts away. And
to expect that might be a little unrealistic. Then again, there are some
cases where having bass localized actually made a lot of sense to us,
namely gaming. So, cranking the basellet's intensity up to max and
throwing on a firsterson shooter like Doom can actually leave you pretty
shook. But we did find it worked best when it's on the wrist that's connected
to your mouse hand. Or thinking completely outside the box, you can
strap the chest thumping beats directly to your thorax to really get your heart
rate up. U please bear in mind though that the basel is not recommended for
people with pacemakers and also that duct tape sticks to chest hair really,
really well. Finally, while we did find
one guy online who likes to use his bracelet on his tummy, we got our best
results with the device above the waistband. Although, now that I think
about it, it does come with this extra shorter strap.
Anyway, the bassellet can also add some value in non- headphone situations, like
supplementing your base model car audio or keeping you immersed in your tunes as
you putt around the house. And it's got surprisingly decent range. So then I was
ready to tear this thing apart, but as far as jewelry goes, it's neither the
most expensive nor the most useless thing we have ever encountered. And my
initial skepticism and annoyance at needing to carry yet another freaking
dongle aside, it does make your music
experience feel a little bigger. But
with that said, unless you're already rocking a top-of-the-line audio
solution, at $200, we just can't help
but wonder if your money wouldn't be better spent on improved headphones.
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