Do you ever wish you could turn a little more up? Have you ever been at a festival and wanted to rave even harder? Do you love music? Well, you, my friend, are in luck. The most party-friendly accessory ever to be conceptualized, the most turnt up piece of machinery you can turn on, the "first high-quality wearable technology engineered for the electronic dance music community" has arrived.
It's called the Halo, and its makers, a pair of recent Northwestern grads named Ryan and Danny, have launched a Kickstarter to put the prototype into wider production. Is there a market for this? Obviously. Have you heard of EDM? Are you aware of molly? Can you deny the brilliance of a slogan like 'Built for festivals. Optimized for raging.'?" Here are some of the other selling points of the Halo, according to the Kickstarter:
Beautiful LED Display -- Light up the night with 32 RGB LEDs.
Intelligent Beat Recognition -- Unparalleled audio response discerns different frequencies and the beat structure of the music around you.
Epic Battery Life -- Rock out for 15+ hours on a single charge, and power back up via USB.
Festival-Proof -- Rage on, trusting your Halo will make it through festival after festival.
Infinite Patterns -- Cycle through entrancing patterns with the click of a button and download new sets to keep things fresh.
Open Source -- Develop for the Halo and help unleash the incredible potential of the first high-tech wearables for raves.
How sweet is this thing? Very sweet, as you can tell from the number of times the word "epic" is used to describe it. As anyone who's tried to weather a music festival and had their phone dies know, preserving any kind of battery life under these circumstances is a Homeric task. So kudos for that. Personally, my favorite component of this is the open source part, which means that anyone can design their own light patterns and algorithms to match up the headband to music. Want your headband to spell out Morse code for "save me, I drank 12 Red Bull vodkas and am about to vomit everywhere" while you rage to Skrillex? That capability is just a few lines of code away, my partners in PLUR.
The Halo came together after its creators visited Ultra Music Festival in 2011 and wanted a light-up device to go with the music. They debuted a full-body suit the next year, and people kept asking where to buy it. This reaction gave them the idea to make a simpler, more marketable version: A headband. Perfect, of course, for all the real EDM heads out there.
It's safe to say you'll never party the same way again.