I've never seen the appeal of sunglasses with built-in earphones. OK, I suppose I get the theory, but in reality, there are time that you want to listen to you music when you don't necessarily want to be wearing sunglasses--like at night, for example (yeah, yeah, Corey Hart, I know, I know). That said, plenty of companies have been jumping into the space with both feet ever since it was pioneered by Oakley a few years back.
The latest is Step Labs, which is showing off its new TriSpecs at CES. These guys offer "high fidelity," according to the company, plus Bluetooth for pairing with your handset. The headphones also offer fairly good speech quality--I can attest to that, having tried out a pair last night. Also, unlike the Oakley Thumps, they actually look like something non-crazy people might wear in public.
According to Step Labs, the glasses are available now--well, sort of. The company actually doesn't have any distribution in the States. So in the meantime, if you really want a pair, be sure to check out the site.
For PCMag's full CES coverage, go to http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,2235882,00.asp.
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January 7, 2009 6:43 PM
Correction.
TriSpecs Inc is the manufacturer of the product.
Step-Labs is only providing the noise cancellation software.
For more info check out www.TriSpecs.com
January 11, 2009 6:48 PM
yea there was a mistake tri specs is the main manufacturing company and step is only the small part of noise cancelation software. the hardware and mainly all the software aside from the cancelation was formed by tri spec... whose CEO isaac levy was the founder and inspiration behind the project... i can't wait to get a pair