Bragi's Fancy New Earbuds Translate for You in Real Time

Before the ear-computer market took off, before AirPods and Here Ones and EarIn and Skybuds and IQBuds and Kanoa and a thousand other names you've never heard of, there was Bragi. The German company blew up on Kickstarter in 2014 after introducing a pair of headphones called Dash, which it claimed could play music, measure your health in complicated ways, let you control your gadgets with a nod, and hear the real world and digital audio simultaneously. Dash didn't do everything Bragi promised, and made it clear that this cool new world of in-ear computers remained a ways off. "We're so early in this entire industry," says CEO Nikolaj Hviid. "Sometimes I feel we're a bit too early."