PLUG Bluetooth Earphone
Bluetooth Earphone Design for Digital Nomads
Individual work 2018-2019
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The increasement of personal electronic devices brings annoying charging problems. Bluetooth earphone is supposed to make earphone an easy wearable for daily use. But due to the technology limit currently, while users don’t achieve proper sound quality, they always have to worry about the battery left and various other problems.
While wireless charging is far away from popularization and it’s not friendly for electronics that are always carried on the way, I want to make bluetooth earphone easier to use, to reduce the concern when carrying it out for a long time on the way.
The idea is to embed a pair of USB-C into a bluetooth earphone. You wear it as normal ones, but when you take its body apart, you can directly plug it into your phone, computer, charging bank, or the socket at home. So, you don’t need to carry the charging cable with you everywhere anymore and you won’t worry about losing any part of it cause it’s one object all together. And, while you plug it to other smart devices, it becomes a wired earphone. You can listen to music while charging, and you get a better sound quality.
I took the basic shape of cylinder to make it easy-recognized as the controller. You have buttons of volume up, volume down and multi-function together under the orange stripe.
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Renderings from Xinyi Jiang
Photos from Adrien Sgandurra