SleepPhones are headphones in a headband
You should not pay $60 for the "SleepPhones Sleep Aid System." Yes, it's a headband that has headphones built-in. Yes, they include a CD with "binaural beats technology." I know, I know — the bag of "premium quality lavender" is enticing.
But here's the thing: you can just wear regular ear buds and put a two-dollar headband over them.
Okay, fine, maybe the SleepPhones are a little more comfortable than that, but I fall asleep with headphones on all the time. Besides that time I spilled corrosive cough syrup all over the jute cord I keep clothes-pined to my eyelids and I woke up with the cab of my truck filled with orphan and bus parts, I've never had any problems with comfort at all.
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and I woke up with the cab of my truck filled with orphan and bus parts
Orphaned, or orphan and? Either way, it's great.
Orphan parts?
"you can just wear regular ear buds and put a two-dollar headband over them."
this sounds like medieval torture to me. maybe I have small ear holes or something, but it would be worth far more than 60 dollars to avoid that scenario if I had any interest in "sleep headphones".
better if it were also an eyemask
Crazy, I was just thinking about needing something like this after my new puppy decided that my Sennhesier's needed a shorter cord about 2 hours ago.
Like Mr. Crayons, ear buds are already uncomfortable for me, so I can't imagine sleeping on them. That said, if I had a DIY bone in my body, it seems it would be fairly easy to take a pair of cheap headphones with small/thin earpieces and stick them inside of a nice padded headband.
It probably isn't a great idea to go to sleep with earbuds in or this headband. Extended exposure to an auditory stimulus like this is almost certain to cause hearing damage. I'm living proof: I used to go to sleep almost every night with headphones on (not even earbuds, which are even worse for you) and within a few years a routine check-up revealed a permanent 15% loss of hearing in both ears, across all frequencies.
I never attended rock concerts or had loud music playing - so this is the only major risk factor to which my hearing loss can be attributed, I'm afraid.
I cant find a link but Brookstone sells an eye mask with built in headphones for around 20 bucks.
I like this concept as I used to sleep with ear buds in all the time in college and found it to be uncomfortable. At the time I owned a sobakawa pillow which allowed me to mold a space around the ear bud, but ultimately I'd wake up in another position with a mild throbbing pain in my ear.
I'm a tad skeptical of this product though. Maybe we should wait for iPod to come out with a better version of this.