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scorpion headphones

Form Follows Music

or how a song manifests itself in the form of headphones.

The project start­ed with the emo­tion­al analy­sis of a song. How does it feel and what does it trig­ger in us. This was the basis for the devel­op­ment of a wide vari­ety of head­phone con­cepts that go far beyond the famil­iar prod­uct spec­trum and intro­duce new ideas, func­tions and design lan­guages into the rather clas­sic head­phone world. 

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over-​ear

  • Cables inter­fere with work & exercise
  • Cables often break
  • Over-​ear head­phones weigh a lot
  • And they heat up the ears, mak­ing them imprac­ti­cal for exer­cis­ing & working.
  • They are also not trans­portable with­out an extra bag.

in-​ear

  • Bat­tery life of in-​ear head­phones is too short.
  • In-​ear head­phones can eas­i­ly fall out.
  • When you take them out to do some­thing in team­work, your hands are direct­ly full, mak­ing you inflexible.
  • They are also dif­fi­cult to use (touch­pads, dou­ble occupancy).
  • Head­phones could always be louder.

Bridges

Through the bridges, the head­phones rest eas­i­ly on your shoul­ders.

There is also extra room for an increased bat­tery life.

User Interface

The cen­ter dial com­bines two functions.

Vol­ume, tre­ble and bass can be adjust­ed direct­ly on your head­phone, inde­pen­dent of your play­back device.

Dials

The dials click in small pre­cise steps.

This allows fast and intu­itive usage: Any part of a song/​album/​playlist can be aproached easily.

The mag­nets of the speak­ers are vis­i­ble at the tip of the dials, so you can see them vibrate while in usage.

The ear­pieces can­not fall out, since they are pushed in firmly.

Tubes

There are 6 wires for the three speak­ers on both sides.

The wires are enclosed by tubes to pre­vent inter­fer­ence with your work or exercise.

Appearance

I tried to give the head­phones an aggres­sive look while main­tain­ing their 'pure func­tion­al­i­ty' and syn­thet­ic appear­ance. They seem to grab onto your head and ears — with­out sac­ri­fic­ing com­fort. The Tubes (with the wires inside them) aim to bring the raw insides and func­tion­al­i­ty to the surface.