Stay Aware with Aftershokz Trekz Titanium

Can you believe it’s already September?! Next month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so Aftershokz and Fit Approach will be hosting a month-long instagram challenge to coincide with it! (Stay tuned for further details!)

I wrote about breast cancer for a Medical Mondays post last year, and come October, I’ll be rolling out with another one to go along with it!

I also have something new to share with you that I sneak-previewed on instagram yesterday evening!

A photo posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Sep 11, 2016 at 4:34pm PDT

If you’ve ever been to the doctor’s office and they happened to put a tuning fork against your mastoid bone and asked you to tell them when you no longer heard it, that’s called the Rinne test, and it basically tests the air conduction vs. bone conduction to determine if you have normal hearing. (Normal would be if air conduction was greater, aka you could still hear the tuning fork next to your outer ear after you could no longer hear it when it was held against the mastoid bone.)

FYI, that actually has nothing to do with the rest of this post. It’s just the first thing I think of when I hear the words, “bone conduction.”

The muffin doesn’t care about bone conduction, but she did agree to model them for me!

I’ve personally never been a fan of earbuds because I hate putting anything into my ears. (The only time I voluntarily wear them = if I’m out in public and don’t want to be bothered by random people on the street.) Otherwise, earbuds irritates my ears a whole lot.

1 in 5 teens has some form of hearing loss–that’s a rate ~30% higher than it was in the 1980’s and 1990’s, and there might be some correlation of that with the increase in the use of earphones/earbuds.

I have a tendency to listen to everything at super low volumes–when I play music in my car, it rarely increases past 5. (I’d like to preserve my hearing because music is a huge part of my life and I’d also like to keep my perfect pitch–it came in handy after I got my ocarina when I was playing Zelda on N64 this weekend!)

Case in point, these headphones are my favorite thing ever. My Aftershokz Trekz Titanium headphones transmit audio using a pair of transducers that hang out on/near your cheekbones, so they leave your ears uncovered and canals unblocked, which helps to promote safety, as it won’t impede on your situational awareness.

• Coated to repel sweat + moisture (not waterproof though, so don’t submerge them in water!)
• Can be worn with protective helmets, glasses or sunglasses
• Technically* legal to drive with them on, as they aren’t blocking the ears in any way
  *Open ear headphones aren’t recognized by current laws yet, so this is not a guarantee.
• Can be used as a headset for communication or used to make/take calls when paired with a smartphone or Bluetooth-enabled device

I actually have both the Bluez 2S and the Trekz Titanium and both are awesome, but I do have a slight lean toward the Trekz Titanium because they’re more lightweight and flexible.

I walk to and from work almost every day, sometimes not during the best of hours (e.g. 12-4 a.m.), so before, I never listened to music or talked on the phone on my way home because it’d impede on my ability to potentially hear someone coming up behind me. These have pretty much solved it for me, so now I can talk with my family/friends via phone calls, listen to music, orrr play Pokemon Go without impeding on my situational awareness! ;P

Other awesomeness? The rotation I just started is 45 minutes away (so no more walking to work for the next 2 months :[ ), and these make it possible for me to have the GPS going while still listening to music or catching up on life with friends!

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Also, for every unit sold through October 31st, 2016 on AfterShokz, 25% of the proceeds will be donated to Bright Pink – a nonprofit organization that focuses on breast and ovarian cancer awareness and education. :] Tis a win-win!

You can get also get a FREE case with Aftershokz Pink Trekz by adding the small case to their cart and then enter the code: PinkGift. (The code won’t apply to the order with no case in the cart!)

• Headphones or earbuds?
• Have you ever heard of/tried out bone conduction headphones?