The smart charging case is the User Interface. An innovation in True Wireless user experience.

 

 

 

From listening to music on your iPhone, to taking a zoom call on your Windows Laptop, to switching over to watch a movie on your Android TV or tablet – control is at your fingertips via the smart case.

Switch connections quickly to any of an unlimited number of devices previously paired with, across any operating system, via the smart case UI. 

Today’s typical modern end-user interacts with up to five different devices over the course of a day. These are the one earbuds to connect across all the devices you interact with, over your entire day.

 

 

 

 

 

All functionality can be controlled from the intuitive smart case user interface. Play, pause, change volume, toggle noise cancellation, control transparency mode levels, set up pairing with new devices, switch connections, etc.

 

 

 

 

Battery life of each individual earbud and the case itself, as well as the name of the current device connected to, always within sight at all times. 

No more fumbling to try to figure out which device your earbuds connect to the moment you take them out of the case.

No more surprises running low on batt during a call. Or struggling to check how much battery life is left, using the same device you’re currently taking a video call from.

 

 

 

 

It already supports the new Bluetooth standard.

LE Audio supports broadcast Bluetooth from a single source to multiple earphones – allowing you to share your music from a single device, with your family and friends.

This is perfect for watching TV at home with your partner while the kids are asleep. But this introduces an even more complex variation of sources you can switch your earphones to.

 

 

In the LE Audio world, using your own individual earphones and being able to quickly switch over from one source to another, is essential. But this is where current earbuds UX is an unbelievable hassle.

With Morph, you’re ready for this new world.

 

 

The most advanced Bluetooth 5.2 earbuds ever.

• Ultra Long battery – 24h battery life with single charge, 50h with charging case.
• Bluetooth 5.2, LE Audio Ready – Hardware already supports the next Bluetooth standard. Firmware upgradeability ensures maximum support as and when new LE Audio devices are released over the next years. 
• Qualcomm Adaptive ANC – Latest in ultra-low power Active Noise Cancellation tech from Qualcomm that you can leave running through the day with minimal impact on battery life. Adaptive ANC adjust in real time to changes in how the earbuds fit in your ears. It does not rely on requiring a tight seal in your ear, but rather monitors the amount of noise that gets through, and adjusts the audio and ANC accordingly in real time. This provides best in class performance especially in environments where the earbuds may move such as during fitness workouts.
• Qualcomm TrueWireless Mirroring – For automatic and seamless primary/secondary role handover between earbuds, for a super stable drop-free signal. Use one earbud, or the other, or both. Switch between them anytime, with no interruption to your audio.
• Transparency Mode –  Super-low latency “leak-through” for environmental awareness. Allows you to hear the surroundings without needing to remove the earbuds.
• Always-On Voice Assistant – So you can use these services anytime your hands are busy, such as when driving or cycling, without needing to tap on a button.
• aptX Adaptive – Latest in Bluetooth codec for earbuds. Dynamic low latency mode, Adaptive bit rate, HD quality audio. 
• aptX Voice – For extreme clarity in voice calls. Enables 32kHz Super Wideband voice calls over Bluetooth.
• 8th Gen cVc audio processing  –  Suite of algorithms for Echo Cancelling and Noise Suppression with 2-mic input. 
• Knowles Balanced Armature driver – A single full range high quality BA driver, pro-tuned for amazing clarity in the mids, and a punchy but not overbearing bass.
• IPX5 – Sweatproof for use in all your heavy workouts.
• IMU Tap Detection – Configurable single / double tap detection on the earbuds themselves, using an Inertial Measurement Unit.
• Wireless Charging – for easy and convenient charging of the smartcase.
• Spatial Audio – HRTF based spatial audio processing for amazingly immersive audio.

 

Morph InfiniConnect beats the technical specs and features of many other popular premium tier earbuds, at a fraction of the price.

All packed into a size smaller than a typical credit card.

 

 

 

 

Morph Earbuds retain our signature Morph earpiece shape first introduced with our earlier BT Neckband and Wired earphones products. 

This shape is based on hundreds of actual earmolds, a few actual samples of which are shown in the images below. We collected these over many years of doing custom in-ear monitors, and from these 3D-scanned data points, we calculated the most comfortable fit that suits the vast majority of humans.

 

 

With Morph Earbuds, we introduce a new matte carbon black finishing for the earpieces. An ultra-modern and clean, unique signature look.  

 

 

 

 

Over the last year, one consistent request from our customers has been that our users would love to have a True Wireless option for the earphones. 

That brings us here, where with the Indiegogo community’s help, we are taking that amazing comfortable fit design, great audio quality and tuning, and turning it into a next-generation True Wireless earbud design that solves some of the most pressing UX issues of earbuds today.

We have worked hard through this journey to create a prototype.

 

The Earbuds

We started with re-engineering our earpieces to create the space needed for the Bluetooth circuitry, whilst still maintaining our pristine signature acoustic tuning.

The earpieces were prototyped via 3D printing, and we hand-assemble the units.

 

 

3D printed earpiece shells, with the driver inside to test the tuning with a new acoustic cavity

 

 

Our team piecing the units together and working on the finishing 

 

 

The Charging Case

Then we had to create a new type of charging case, one that has a display and electronics to communicate with the earbuds.

We started by visualizing in sketches, again and again, over many iterations, how such a unique case should look like. 

We wanted something that solves all the UX issues with earbuds today, shows all the valuable info on a display, and at the same time looks & feels amazing as a product.

 

 

This process took months. Each concept we narrowed down to was 3D printed for evaluation.

 

 

 

The Electronics

Then comes the electronics. We needed to create the unique functionality of our charging case being able to communicate with both the earbuds. 

Our electronics engineers worked day and night to get this capability up and running, This image shows our Bluetooth development boards running the low-energy protocols we created for communications of commands between the case and the earbuds.

 

 

And finally, we put it all together.

 

 

Our prototype rocks.

 

Next step, we need to lead this prototype to mass manufacturing stage. This will involve iteratively doing larger scale user testing, to unearth any issues that may come up and should be fixed before shipping out the final product. 

We will go through this process in a very iterative manner, coming up with next-version prototypes and testing them with users again, to ensure a solid final product, before we finally lock down the specs and design, create the tooling, test the manufactured samples for reliability, go through certification processes, and then bring up the manufacturing lines for the production runs.  

 

And this is what we now seek the Indiegogo community’s help for, we need your backing to move this from prototype to final manufacturing and shipping. 

 

 

Prices are set in SGD in Indiegogo, so they may vary slightly in USD, GBP, EUR, or other currencies, depending on current exchange rates.

All Perks are quantity and time-limited, and will progressively be made available at reduced discount levels every few weeks, as we get closer to shipping.

 

 

Having met our crowdfunding stretch goal, we are making the following categories of Add-On Accessories available to backers:

• Smartcase protective sleeves & shells, carabiner, and lanyard: variety of different colors and material, hard and soft cases. Laser engraving of text on the sleeve.
• Sports ear-hooks: for a very secure fit during workouts
• Eartips range: of different shapes, sizes and material
• Interchangeable earbud faceplates: variety of faceplate aesthetic designs
• Neckband and aesthetic beads: attachable to the earbuds, to be able to leave them hanging down around your neck 

For each of these Add-On categories, we’ll make as wide a variety as possible in designs, colors, and materials available for your selection.

You’ll select which Add-On accessories you want via the BackerKit survey, which will be sent before we ship the product to you. We expect to be able to make some of these accessories available free of charge, while others will need an add-on payment amount in order to cover our costs.

The survey will have images of the final production accessories and prices so you can make a well-informed selection then.

 

 

 

We’re Morph. We’re a team of 12 engineers, entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists. Globally experienced in growing tech startups both in Silicon Valley and in Asia, we’ve come together in the lovely city of Singapore to build Morph. We love making amazing products that impact people’s lives, and we love disrupting the status quo. Dinosaur companies, beware. Coffee’s on us, drop by our workshop. Lets chat and we’ll be excited to show you how our products come to life. Join us on this journey. 

 

 

Here’s our strategy leads Eugene and Darran going through our product roadmap with colleagues. Find them at our office when you swing by, they’ll reveal all the humanity changing products we have in the pipeline coming up.

For more background on Morph and current products, check out www.morph.audio as well as our Instagram and Facebook pages.  

 

 

Feel free to reach us directly on Instagram or Facebook chat anytime if you have any queries about the Morph InfiniConnect, the crowdfunding campaign, or otherwise. 

 

 

 

Morph was founded with the mission to design and make products that disrupt the status quo. We’re a team who are passionate about technology, and we love creating innovative products that break the mold. 

When we started looking at the true-wireless earbuds market a year ago, it was apparent that over the last few years, innovation in TWS earbuds has stagnated – almost every earbuds look the same, work the same way, and are from the same set of OEM factories simply rebadged with some minor tweaks in aesthetics or specs. 

To us, this signaled the market space is ripe for disruption. So we went back to first-principles to look at what really mattered from the user experience, to create something that really is a step jump from everything else out there.

This vision has brought us angel investment, which we’re grateful has allowed us to build what we have today – the team, brand, initial products, and also enabled us to put in place all our product dev and manufacturing supply chain, commerce, and fulfilment infrastructure. So we have in place now, a modern backend and support infrastructure that can efficiently build new products from concept all the way to market roll out, and happy customers worldwide who love what we’ve delivered.

We chose crowdfunding as our next step because we want to engage with a community that loves disruptive products that are out to change the world, with whom we can engage to collaboratively craft the product and features, while also allowing us to finance hardware related expenses such as injection mold tooling, certification, and minimum order inventories associated with scaling up. 

The crowdfunding route allows us to realize such products as this, without needing to raise a VC financing round, which would have made us beholden to growth targets, revenue numbers, or product timelines imposed by investors who may not necessarily have the same level of passion as the team in crafting products that make a difference to you.

Thank you for your support, and this will be the first of many disruptive products to come your way.

– Team Morph 

 

 

We expect to start deliveries 7 months from when the Indiegogo InDemand campaign began. 

As our goal is to collaboratively create an awesome product with the crowdfunding community, we may propose additional features as we go along, e.g. as stretch goals, or options, and gather your feedback via survey responses if we should incorporate these into the product. Should any of these new features require additional development time to delivery, we’ll be upfront in stating that very clearly in any survey sent out, so your responses can consider that.

We’ve also been doing hardware for a while, and have been delivering existing products to market already. So while unanticipated events may happen again in global supply chains such as during the Covid-19 pandemic, we have already got all our existing suppliers in place to make sure things move along with minimal impact.

 

 

We’ll collect shipping and taxes separately after the campaign is over, and just before we ship the product out to you.

Reason for this is, during the current Covid-19 pandemic, shipping costs have gone up significantly. However, we do believe that the prices will go down as the situation improves over the year. Thus we don’t feel it fair to charge you the high shipping costs that exist today, which may be alot more expensive than it is in a few months time.

We’ll charge the current prices accordingly, right before we ship the product out to you. This is estimated to be between USD5 to USD25, depending on destination, and depending on the global shipping logistics situation as the world eases out of the pandemic. 

Prices do not include taxes and VAT. That will be subject to the laws and regulations of each individual country, and charged separately.

 

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Risks and challenges

The Morph team have been producing and assembling our existing earphones products for more than a year, shipping products to users worldwide since March 2020. These current products can be seen on https://www.morph.audio

Our customers have consistently given us 5-star ratings in product quality and customer service. Thus unlike many other crowdfunding campaigns, we are a team who already are shipping products, and we have gotten pretty good at creating and delivering hardware. Even before Morph, the team have been working in the audio consumer electronics industry for over a decade, with some of us from Creative Labs (well known for the SoundBlaster card and MP3 players in the 90’s and 2000’s) as well as other tech companies. Thus we have a very established background in this space, and also have been working with a set of highly qualified and reputable manufacturing partners.

For this next product, the Morph InfiniConnect, we feel the risks of us not delivering a working product is minimal. We are extremely confident and dedicated in ensuring everyone who backs us in this crowdfunding campaign receives their product.

However, as we’ve seen with the Covid-19 pandemic, totally unexpected things may happen along the way. If any such delays were to occur, we will be very upfront and consistently update all our backers with full transparency.

The Morph InfiniConnect already has reached a stage of a working prototype, so we know the functionality is proven for something as novel as this product. But we’re doing this crowdfunding campaign because we want to engage the community in crafting the final product before we ship it out – we will refine the prototype through several iterations and user reviews, before we head to mass production. This will ensure that the final product provides a top-notch user experience. We believe in making the best product possible for our users, and this crowdfunding campaign enables that.