A pretty good way to fall asleep, all told. I got in the habit of listening to the sounds of the ocean while reading “Moby Dick” each night. The company generally does a good job curating its own sleep sounds, ranging from nature sounds like rain and wind to self-selected ambient tracks. This is used to pair them, locate them and offers Bose’s library of music. Like the originals, the Sleepbuds II only work with the included app. The buds’ biggest limitation is actually by design. The soft and rubbery wings also do a great job keeping them in place. They slip on comfortably and stay flush with the ear, so nothing gets snagged. As someone who finds the slightest irritants a major hurdle to falling asleep, I was pleasantly surprised by how unobtrusive the buds are. I really dig the design of these things, overall, from the illuminating metal charging case with its sliding lid to the earbuds themselves. The company went in an entirely different direction than, say, Kokoon, which offers an over-ear solution.Īll told, the build is solid, as you’d expect/hope from the company name and accompanying price point. Bose got into the space in earnest back in mid-2018, offering one of the more polished (and pricey) approaches to the category. Sleep headphones are, in and of themselves, not an entirely new phenomenon. (I’m sure it’s nothing that years of extensive and expensive therapy can’t fix.)
That’s the lesson I keep relearning at this job - no single piece of technology is going to cure all of my ills. Of course, the underpinning issues can be hard to isolate and even harder to treat. 2020 gave most of us no shortage of excuses for sleep deprivation, from personal stresses to larger societal concerns.Īnd, thankfully, the past few years have seen no shortage of technological solutions to the problem of sleeplessness. For me, levels have fluctuated between too little and too much, but have - more often than not - tended toward the former.
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