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Description
Clip-on open-ear earpiece
It hooks over your ear. Your ear stays open.
A soft C-shaped clip about the size of your thumb tip. Pinch it, hook it over the rim of your ear, let it close. Nothing goes into your ear canal, so the room keeps reaching you while the music plays.
The point of an open ear
Earbuds that seal your ear canal are very good at one thing: shutting the world out. That is exactly wrong for a lot of the time you actually want music on — running beside traffic, cycling, working in a room with other people in it, cooking while someone is talking to you, walking a dog past a road.
Nothing is inserted into the canal. The speaker sits just outside it and sends sound to you through the air, so you hear your music and you hear the car, the doorbell and the person behind you at the same time. That is the whole reason this shape exists.
- Nothing is inserted into your ear. No silicone tip, no seal, no pressure, no suction feeling when you pull it out.
- It grips the rim of your ear, not the inside. There is no canal seal to work loose, which is what usually makes ordinary earbuds creep out on a run.
- You stay in the room. Traffic, announcements, colleagues and doorbells all still get through.
How it goes on
The shell is two rounded arms joined at one end. Pinch them apart, slide the gap over the upper rim of your ear, and let go. The larger arm — the one carrying the touch panel and the microphone pinhole — sits on the outside of your ear. The smaller soft pad tucks behind it.
Because it is holding onto cartilage rather than wedging into a canal, it sits the same way every time and it does not need a tip size. It also means it will feel different from an in-ear bud: present rather than sealed. If you have never worn an open-ear clip, expect that.
Glasses are usually fine, since the clip sits on the upper rim rather than behind the ear where an arm rests.
Calls, controls and charging
There is a microphone in the outer arm — the small pinhole beside the panel — so you can take a call without digging your phone out. The flat panel on that arm is the control surface.
It connects over Bluetooth and it recharges; a USB charging cable is listed as coming with it. There is no cord in use and nothing dangling down your neck.
Three things worth knowing before you order
It is one earpiece, worn on one ear. Every photograph on this page, our own product video, and the packing list all show a single unit. If you are expecting a stereo pair, message us before you order rather than after.
It has no published water rating. We are not going to invent one. Sweat on a walk or a run is a different thing from immersion — do not swim in it, do not shower in it, and do not leave it out in rain.
It does not block noise, and it is not meant to. An open ear canal is the feature. If what you want is to shut the world out on a plane, this is the wrong shape of product and you will be disappointed by it.
Specifications
Two numbers we are deliberately not printing: battery life and Bluetooth version. The supplier's own listings for this design disagree with each other, and we would rather leave a gap than put a figure on this page that we cannot stand behind. Ask us and we will tell you what we have.
In the box: one earpiece and a USB charging cable. No charging case.
Who it is actually for
Someone who runs or cycles on roads and does not want to be deaf to them. Someone who takes calls all day and hates the plugged-up feeling of a sealed bud. Someone who has to be able to hear a child, a colleague or a kettle while music is on. If that is you, an open-ear clip is a genuinely different experience from earbuds. If you want silence, buy something else.
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