Nura, the Melbourne-based startup, makes headphones that calibrate to a user’s individual hearing profile.
The company was founded by inventors Kyle Slater, Luke Campbell, (pictured left and right) and Dragan Petrovic, with backgrounds in physio-acoustics, electrical engineering and hearing science respectively.
The first time you wear the headphones, Nura tests your ‘otoacoustic emissions’ by playing a battery of high-frequency tones into your ear which you cannot hear. A tiny microphone measures how strong the sounds bounce back, indicating whether you can hear certain high-frequency pitches. The process maps the workings of your inner ear, transmitting the information back to the headphone to create your unique profile on the way your ears react to noise. Nura can save three different hearing profiles which can be controlled and viewed on a smartphone using the Nura app.