Product: Headphones: Earbuds
Drugged headphones and earplugs   (-1)  [vote for, against]
When a person digests wheat they make anesthetic opiate peptides, use these same peptides to diffuse out of headphone plastic to microanesthetize local area for wearing comfort

Something new with in-ear wireless headphones is making them all day sensationless with organic-all natural endorphins. Diffiusion (drug delivery) of the endorphins, also known as opiate peptides, occurs so that just that mm of tissue they press up against is anesthetized. Body moisture or undetectable solvent (charged perfluorocarbon) at the plastic of the headphones migrates an opiate peptide into the skin.

Opiate peptides could use a name upgrade to like digested wheat mu activator. When people eat wheat, one of the products in their GI tract are opiate peptides. It is just they are far from the brain.

Although spurious as a therapy at doses you would get from headphones, unless you have special actual working drug delivery wear-all-day headphones: some opiate peptides increase surviving tissue after a heart attack [link], if they make the headphone comfortizing opiate out of those then it's all upside.

This being the halfbakery, there can be actual humor content: Sublingual headphone high. Yes, some people if they hear there are opiate peptides on the surface of headphones might position headphones sublingually. No, I don't think sucking on headphones with picograms (even femtograms!) of opiate peptides would do anything.

Of course, there is an exception: If a person got authentic drug delivery headphones that transmitted a full body dose of something therapeutic, then actually, sucking on them might release a whole bunch more.

All of this works for earplugs and electric earplugs as well of course.
-- beanangel, Dec 20 2020

discomfort has a function
-- pocmloc, Dec 20 2020


The headphones could literally tell you to take them out if they were rubbing your ears wrong!

Transparent to IR (can still be stylish to human vision) exterior plastic and 20 cent alibaba cam looks at headphone/person contact surface, then verifies lack of redness, and/or gooey crust. If it encountered a deeply confused user who stuck them in backwards or sideways it could say "You can turn your headphones around for even better sound!"

The cheapest bluetooth (airpod imitation) earbuds are $1.00 at alibaba. They have some for 40 cents, but I feel funny about that outlier. If airpods really are 20-50 cents each then at the developed world they are basically disposable.
-- beanangel, Dec 20 2020



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