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Hear your audio. Keep your awareness
A Safer Way to Experience Personal Audio
A new headphone architecture designed to reduce direct ear exposure while preserving environmental sounds around you.
Patent-protected technology. Built for safer, more natural listening.
Why Today's Headphones Fall Short
Most headphones place sound directly at or inside the ear.
This can:
Increase sound pressure at the eardrum cumulatively over time
Reduce awareness of your surroundings
Force a tradeoff between immersion and safety
For commuters, pedestrians, and everyday listeners, that tradeoff matters.
A different way to deliver sound
Yapello takes a fundamentally different approach.
Instead of placing the sound source directly at the ear, the driver is positioned a few centimeters away—aligned with the ear’s natural listening path.
This small shift creates a profound effect: it creates a more balanced interaction between sound and hearing.
Key points:
Ear canal remains fully open
Directional sound without isolation
Preserves natural spatial awareness
Offset-Audio™ Technology
Other "open-ear" audio systems project sound toward the ear at an angle.
Yapello goes further.
Instead of projection, it keeps the ear-canal open and uses acoustic alignment—shaping how sound reaches the ear, not just where it comes from.
The result:
Improved clarity at lower output levels
Reduced need to increase volume in noisy environments
A more natural listening experience
Designed with Safer Listening in Mind
Traditional designs increase acoustic coupling directly at the ear.
Yapello’s offset-driver architecture reduces that coupling—
with modeled potential to lower required output levels while maintaining usable audio.
→ A design approach that supports safer listening—without relying on software or settings.
Built and Being Refined
Yapello has developed a working proof-of-concept prototype demonstrating the offset-driver architecture.
Current efforts are focused on:
An attractive consumer-ready design
Acoustic performance and perceptual quality
Real-world listening scenarios
Backed by Engineering and Intellectual Property
Issued U.S. patent covering offset-driver architectures (2025)
Additional patent allowed (2026)
Designed for integration across multiple form factors
Why we’re launching on Kickstarter
We’re building a community around a simple idea:
Listening should not come at the cost of hearing and awareness safety.
Kickstarter allows us to:
Validate real-world interest
Engage early supporters
Bring safer listening design to life
Be among the first to experience a new kind of listening
Get updates, early access, and priority when we launch.
Key Highlights
Patented Technology
Patented Technology
Patents covering the acoustic and mechanical design of offset-driver headphones
Offset Audio™ Technology
Offset Audio™ Technology
Directional sound delivered from a controlled distance from the ear.
Open Acoustic Path
Open Acoustic Path
Natural sound delivery using a conventional speaker-driver.
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