Objects worth keeping.
Things that adapt to you: headphones, clothes, a phone and sound for the room. Six ways to keep a familiar object useful.
Explore the 3 connections
Change a part, keep the rest.
Headphones with replaceable components and a phone designed for repair make a practical promise: one worn part need not retire the whole object.
Keep the headphones. Change the part.
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Make repair part of the product.
Read story ↗Keep the headphones. Change the part.
A modular headphone system lets listeners replace parts and change their setup as their needs evolve.
Read the storyMake repair part of the product.
Replaceable parts, repair guidance and long-term support turn keeping a smartphone into a practical design choice.
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What would make this useful where you live?
Make room for the person.
Expanding clothes respond to a growing child. Hearing-aid jewellery offers a choice about personal style. Both rethink how a useful object meets its wearer.
Clothes with room to grow.
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A hearing aid can be part of your style.
Read story ↗Clothes with room to grow.
Engineered pleats let children’s clothing expand as the wearer grows.
Read the storyA hearing aid can be part of your style.
A hearing aid becomes something its wearer can choose to display as jewellery.
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What would make this useful where you live?
Choose how sound fits your life.
Loop changes the sound reaching your ears. Beosound Shape makes speakers part of a wall. One is intimate and portable; the other changes a room.
Make protection something people want to wear.
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Compose the wall and the sound together.
Read story ↗Make protection something people want to wear.
An earplug uses an acoustic channel and filter to reduce sound while retaining a designed listening experience.
Read the storyCompose the wall and the sound together.
Textile-covered wall tiles combine speakers, amplification and passive acoustic dampers in one configurable composition.
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What would make this useful where you live?
Which idea would you bring into your own day?
The details differ. The shared pleasure is finding another way to use something familiar.