I have a portable MP3 player that I’m pretty happy with. It holds a ton of music, and also stores some pictures and gives me alarms for calendar events. It’s pretty spiffy.

It also has some video playback. It can hold feature length movies, but the screen is so tiny (and scratched, my bad!) that it’s hard to watch anything. Having a pair of Vuzix iWear goggles really helps me get the most out of my portable video player. You plug the input source into the goggles (there are tons of adapters to let you plug virtually anything with a video output into the iWear) and settle in to watch the video fill your field of vision.

While watching, I never really got the impression that I was watching anything on a big screen. The screen was nicely sized and well lit, but I wasn’t mistaking the experience for watching a movie screen. All the same, it was a considerable step up from the normal portable watching I do.

It also worked well hooking up to my video game system, though it isn’t able to display high-def video input.

Set up was a snap. Just charge up the viewer and go to videotown. It took a few seconds for me to get comfortable, mostly because I wear the excessively blocky glasses associated with Johnny Depp and Ira Glass. Once I got the nose rests out of the way and discovered that the speakers aren’t designed to fit in your ears, I was off to the races. The battery life lasted long enough for me to get through a two hour movie with time to spare, and it recharges easily on any wall socket.

All in all, it’s a great product that’s pretty comfortable to wear for long periods and gives you a much better portable video experience.

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It’s 1990 and I’m driving on some dull trip with my parents. They’re listening to some awful music on the car stereo. It’d be an otherwise horrible trip, but lucky for me I’ve got my brand new walkman, with a copy of Vanilla Ice’s “To the Extreme” blaring through the headphones. My mom told me that I had to keep the volume pretty low, but in order to hear it over the car stereo I’ve got the volume cranked to the very end. My mom says she can hear the music coming out of my headphones, but I don’t care. My choices are listen at a safe level or hear the music.

It’s 2002 and I’m working on an essay, listening to music through my headphones. A few years of loud concerts and biology lessons have taught me that subjecting my ears to loud music, but I don’t care. I’m having a good time with the volume as is.

It’s 2006 and I just got an iPod with video. It’s a good way to kill time on the train, but something of a disappointing movie watching experience. Having a home theater system at home has spoiled my enjoyment of a movie without surround sound.

It’s 2008 and I’m pleased to announce that Amazing Tech Products Inc. has a solution to all these problems. The Purebuds are a set of earbuds that use reverse sound technology to bounce the sound away from your ear drums, rather than directly at those sensitive little buggers. This leads to a softer sound experience without compromising sound quality.

I’ll admit I was a little skeptical when I was first introduced to Purebuds. “Sure,” I said “They’re better for your ears. But how do they sound? Are we giving up volume in exchange for safety.”

Well, I’ve been trying out my pair, and I’m pleased to say that they sound great. I have a small collection of expensive headphones and ear buds that I use on a regular basis, and I can say without reservation that they stack up to most of them as they sound as good or better than all of my earbuds. They pack a lot of punch into a resonably small frame, and don’t seem to be as prone to distortion as my other earbuds.

I do a lot of walking, and I like to have some music with me when I go, like my own personal soundtrack. A neat little byproduct of the reverse sound technology is that it lets in more outside sound. While this makes them less than desirable for louder environments, it lets you be more aware of your surroundings.

The Purebuds also come with three tips, each one promising a different “audio ambiance effect.” While I found that the “Full Range” and “Bass Boost” worked as advertised, I had a difficult time keeping the “Surround Sound” tips in my ears long enough to get a feel for how well the worked. I have oddly shaped ears, so your milage may vary.

All and all, I’m pretty psyched to be reporting on these headphones. The fact that they are a product Amazing Tech Products Inc is releasing does make me a bit biased, but I was excited enough about the headphones to volunteer to write it up on the blog. Regardless of who makes them, these are a solid product that I enjoy using.

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