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Whether you have a 4 year old who's endlessly watching cartoons on their favorite tablet or a tween who enjoys TikTok, chances are they're listening at volumes that can hurt their hearing. That's why iClever introduced its BTH22 Kids Bluetooth Headphones that have built in volume limiting. The price is way more affordable than you'd expect, but what's more surprising to parent and tech expert Dave Taylor is that they actually sound pretty darn good too. Dave explains why volume limiting is so important and offers a quick demo of the mic pickup too.
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Volume limiting headphones for little heads
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Let's check them out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out these
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These are the I-Clever BTH-22 kids' Bluetooth headphones. They are small enough for the heads of four or five-year-olds
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but they have a lot of expansion, and they're actually pretty comfortable
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Even adults can wear these. And what makes them really notable and why they're kids' Bluetooth headphones is because they have volume limiting built in
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Now, if you're letting your kids just use earbuds or headphones without having ones designed with volume limiting, you're hurting their hearing
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Because as much as you want to police it, as much as you want to be in control, they're going to turn up the volume and then maybe they'll turn it back down just as you show up
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or they're playing games or watching videos where there's big spikes of sound
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and that hurts their hearing in the long run. And not only that, but high frequencies in particular have been shown
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to have a bad effect on long-range or long-term hearing. So enter Eye Clever
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They're one of many companies now that have said, oh, we can limit the volume in the circuitry
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so we can make sure that whatever they set the volume of the source to
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this is never going to get louder than a certain point. What's that point
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So by default, they come out of the box with a maximum of 85 decibels
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which is pretty loud. But with a magic push of both the volume up and volume down
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you can actually drop that limit down to 74 decibels. Now, I have these set to 74 decibels
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and I've been listening to music and watching some YouTube videos and stuff
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And as loud as I want to make it, they just don't really get much more than just sort of a pleasant encompassing sound
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Now here's what's surprising is that they are incredibly affordable, but they're still
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featured and powered by 40 millimeter drivers Bluetooth 5 these are the most advanced Bluetooth of any product I looked at recently They have USBC charging all the stuff happening on the right earpiece
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So when you put them on, as I do like this, they're actually very comfortable
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But USBC charging, they're on ear. They have 60 hours of playback time on a charge
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It comes with a USBC to USBC charging cable. And here's a nice thing
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It comes with a 3.5 millimeter to 3.5 millimeter wire. So if they run out of battery and you're on an airplane or something
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just plug them in with the wire to the source device. And your child will be merrily back on their way
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watching their favorite show or playing their favorite game. No problem. Now, that maximum volume also lowers those high frequency sounds too
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So it does sort of double protection. you know, if you're thinking about when you were a kid and you just wanted the freedom to turn the music up
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the fact is that didn't do your hearing any good. So I think that at the maximum volume
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particularly for little people, they're not going to really know. They're just going to be like
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they just don't get that loud. And they're not going to think about it. So it's going to be something
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where you're being a great parent. And it's all because you picked up headphones that have volume limiting
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easy enough. Now, they're also pretty tough. and they're made out of an ABS plastic
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that doesn't have any BPA or PVC. If you know what those acronyms are
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you know that those are harmful additives to many plastics, but Eye Clever has avoided using those
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And these are protein leather cups and the headband. That means that they're not real leather
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So no animals were harmed in the making of this product, which is good. They are 5.2 ounces
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They're super light. They're super comfortable. And as you can see the ear pieces fold up to make it pretty darn easy to transport and
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Let's see so comes with a user manual which your kids probably are not going to care about
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But you want to know that you can teach them a lot of different features so it has three buttons on the right hand earpiece as you can see And that doesn look like much but volume up volume down press and hold and you can do
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next track, previous track. The middle button can also do pause play
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You have button combinations that can get you back to Bluetooth pairing or to powered off
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All of it is documented in this instructions which cover like, I don't know, 80 languages
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simultaneously so it's a little confusing to read but you only have to go through it
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once to figure out the basics and then you can show it to your kid and it's like okay
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so now you're listening to music and you need to pause because mom's talking to
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you push the pause button easy right so that is everything I wanted to tell you I
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want to say that the sound is actually pretty good the bass is a little muddy but
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I'm listening to it from an adult audio perspective for a kid
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these are going to sound just fine. In fact, it's interesting with kids that you can give them really bad headphones or really bad earbuds and they'll be like, oh, that sounds fine. So they're really not very discerning audio listeners, which is great. But these actually sound good. And I've been using these and they actually, yes, they fit my much bigger than four-year-old head. And they're super comfortable. They have great range. And they even have a built-in microphone. So I thought it might be fun
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to give you a demo of the audio. So let's see if we can get this demo to work
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And now what you're hearing is my voice is picked up by the I Clever BTH-22
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Now, your kids probably aren't on a lot of conference calls, but they might be on a FaceTime call or a Zoom call with Grandma and Grandpa or something
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And so this is what they would hear, and you wouldn't be able to hear the other side of the conversation
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which might be a wonderful thing. So your child can have their own little audio world
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And of course, this is true of teens or anyone else who likes the design and the style
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Now, let me get back to my regular microphone. And so there actually a lot to like here It not you know a world pair of headphones but they not intended to be
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And the price is really kind of ridiculously low. So if you're looking for something where you can get fun, lively, and durable headphones for your little people in your life, these are really good options and definitely worth checking out
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Cool. These are the I-Clever BTH-22 kids Bluetooth headphones. They come in this very nice blue or an equally nice green, and they are 2599
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discounted down to 1799 and there's currently a $4 coupon dropping these down to a mind-boggling
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1399 at amazon.com 1399 these are there's really no reason not to pick up a pair for your kids
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and just say hey surprise I got you these really cool new headphones try them and see what you
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think and don't even mention the volume limiting because they'll just be really pleased
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and really psyched that they got these cool new headphones to show their friends
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or maybe just to use while they're in the car because you're constantly driving
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So lots to like here. The sound is surprisingly good, particularly for 1399 headphones
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It's crazy that they can make them that inexpensive, but definitely worth checking out
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That's all I got. I'm going to go back to my kids programming
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Maybe not. Anyway, I will hope to catch you in my next video
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