dan here for macworld and this is the bose build headphones it
came out this summer and basically it's kind of a kit for children ages eight
and older to assemble their own pair of headphones and learn about kind of how
sound works but was also just to begin with it was kind enough to give us an
extra pair so that we can do as a giveaway so look in the details of the
video for that so with that said let's just kind of take a look at what this
kit is so we get all these different components and it's not honestly not
very many and it's not very complex so when they kind of say ages eight and
older that feels a pretty much accurate so assembly was was very easy and while
you're assembling it you're doing some of the different activities and there's
quite a good amount of them the activities vary from learning how sound
works how you're able to kind of tell direction you hear the sound in one year
and then hear it in the next one and then also how noise canceling can work
talks about pitch and how that can change and there are also some very
important lessons like volume safety you know what does damaged hearing sound
like I think it's the lesson that a lot of people haven't learned is that you
can really damage your ears you know listening music very loud so it's great
that they're teaching kids to listen at an appropriate volume there are also
some games in there and I don't know exactly how much replayability it has
and I they're pretty easy and simple so the ages of 8 and up I think are pretty
right I would say it sort of feels like maybe the cap on age it might be around
14 most kids at that age and older are probably want to play someone like
fortnight versus the kind of games that that this one includes I also asked Bose
if they were planning on adding any kinds of new activities but they don't
have any immediate plans for that which is a shame because I do think
overall the kit could have maybe you know kind of two sets of lessons one for
you slightly younger age group and one for a slightly older and that would kind
of make it a little bit more accessible but what's cool is that at the end of it
you have your own pair of Bose headphones
I asked Bose also what you know if there's a Bose equivalent of these
there's not but it does use some Bose components so it's overall pretty decent
sounding but not the greatest so if you were to just buy a hundred and fifty
dollar pair of headphones which is how much this kit costs you're gonna you're
better off buying just headphones but I think when you kind of think of an
educational gift it is nice to be able to have something at the end and it just
kind of adds like you have you get something out of that value so a kid can
just kind of use this as their regular headphones it's bluetooth it does have a
wired 1/8 1/8 inch audio jack if that's what you need so or batteries run out
it's rechargeable it also lights up on the sides so there is I think the
longevity of I think this product isn't miss necessarily in the activities but
just in being able to have the headphones all the activities are
ios-based so you're gonna need an iPhone or an iPad and it's definitely a lot
easier and to have a larger screen iPad all in all I like this product I think
you know $150 is not Q crazy you get something at the end of it and you in
you and you learn about it so I think it's kind of that process of of getting
more out of gifts than just kind of receiving them what they can do but kind
of the mental aspect of it so if you're interested check them out you can go to
both build calm I believe and if you want a chance to win this pair that
those gave us check the description below and
and you have a chance for that so thanks