Overtone.so

05/10/2023

This is a HUGE milestone! I now have a working technology prototype of Overtone

It's not sexy (yet!), but it proves that the technology works and our partner hearing-tech manufacturer is the right one!

Thank you so much to everyone who donated towards the production of the prototype. It’s not cheap building electronics and honestly I’m so so grateful for everyone who contributed!

Many companies have spent hundreds of thousands developing their prototypes and with some very kind donations from you, we've managed to do it for just a few thousand! Amazing!

It feels pretty crazy that this started as a personal design project to build a hearing enhancer in my bedroom, and 3 years later I now have a working prototype!

I'm really excited to keep moving forward with this project to actually have the first designer hearing enhancers on the market so that Overtones can be available for everyone.

It's really a marathon and not a sprint, but progress is being made. Thanks so much for your patience and sticking with me as I work out how to bring Overtone to life.

Can't wait to see where this goes!

Have a great day!
Nick ✨

27/09/2023

31/08/2022

Decibels → Overtone

We’re rebranding!

Here’s why…

Since we started this project we’ve been taking an existing product, hearing aids, and completely reimagining and repositioning it as something that people would actually want to wear.

We initially felt that we were transitioning hearing aids from medical brand/product to a consumer electronics brand/product.

But as we’ve progressed and spoken to more users, we’ve realised that wearables can much more than consumer tech.

Especially wearables that you wear on your head/face all day long. It becomes a part of how you look.

Just like eyewear.

And while eyewear brands are still essentially assistive technology for visual impairment, they fall more into the brand category of fashion than anything else.

We’re building the hearing equivalent of designer eyewear.

So we’re rebranding from our consumer-tech brand to align closer with our fashion-tech vision.

But why are we changing the name, too?

We came across another company in the hearing space using “Decibels” for their pharmaceutical product. So we felt the need to distance ourselves from medical products in any way with a new name...

So from now on, we’re Overtone.

26/07/2022

The Zenith Royal Hearing Aid (1951)
Damn, this hearing aid design is pretty badass. Over the last 70 years, the industry has just tried to make hearing tech more and more discreet. What a wasted opportunity! I kinda want a baller 1950s style hearable now…

21/07/2022

Here're 5 celebrities who've got hearing loss and you didn't even know!

18/07/2022

Hearing loss isn’t so uncommon. Some of the biggest names out there have hearing loss but it’s kept quiet. Let’s change that and make hearing tech cool.

11/07/2022

Do you struggle to hear when people are wearing a mask? You are not alone!

Our CoFounder Nick Morgan-Jones explains the science to Gray Dawdy why a lot of people are struggling to understand each other when wearing masks.

Check out the entire chat we had here: https://lnkd.in/e4AgTV2p

       

04/07/2022

Smile and nod

Have you ever not understood someone and instead of just saying "excuse me", you just smile and nod your head? We do that too!

Our co-founders Nick Morgan-Jones and Gray Dawdy about playing it off when you don't understand someone. Check out the whole chat here on YouTube.
https://lnkd.in/e4AgTV2p

14/06/2022

Gray and I sat down to chat about all things hearing and turned the camera on to see what happened…

Full video podcast link in the bio ✨

22/05/2022

Summer is hitting Berlin, but we’re happy to be inside working on making the world’s coolest hearing tech. Nothing like a table of prototypes to finish off the weekend!

15/05/2022

Check out how me made the world’s coolest hearing tech fit (almost) everyone!

At Decibels, we are trying to change the way people feel about hearing technology by making something that you would actually want to wear.