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I know, ya wanna look cool but still stay plugged in, listening to your favorite music, podcast or even chqttin gon the phone or joining a Clubhouse room while cruisin'. That's exactly where the Fauna Designer Audio Glasses with Speakers are a perfect match. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ demos the Fauna bluetooth glasses and talks about what's cool and what's not so cool about this entry in the 'bluetooth speaker sunglasses' category.
Learn more at https://www.wearfauna.com/
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These designer glasses have a cool secret. They have built-in speakers. Let's check them out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. These are really cool. These are the Fauna
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designer audio glasses with built-in speakers and microphones. So you're looking at it and you're
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like, I don't see any of that. I just see some pretty nice looking glasses. And the answer is
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they are really nice looking glasses, but they have a lot of cool features built into the system
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This particular model are the Spiro transparent brown. So they have that gradient lens. You can
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possibly see that they're really nice outdoors. They feature Carl Zeiss Vision lenses. So there's
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no distortion. They're really clean and 99% protection from UVA and UVB blue light filtration
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Like I said, it's clear vision, no distortion, and they're surprisingly light considering that both
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of these arm pieces actually are speakers and microphones and obviously the battery and the
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Bluetooth circuitry. So when I put these on, in fact, right now I'm listening to music. Probably
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shouldn't be doing that while I'm trying to make a review, but it's really pretty easy to work with
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And the sides are touch sensitive, so you can move it backward for volume up, forward for volume down
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There's tap sequences for the left or the right. You get the hang of it pretty quickly. They are
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BPA free and you can drop out these lenses and drop in your own prescription lenses if you want
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So that's the glass. Let me talk about the audio technology because they're using USound MEMS
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speaker technology. So if you can see, I'll show you this close up. There's a little tiny speaker
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right in front of your ear. So effectively when I put these on, it's just in front of my ear. So
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it's pointing towards my ear. Now that means if someone's really super close to me and it's in a
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super quiet environment, I really have to turn this music off. So if they're really close to me
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and it's a super quiet environment, they might hear a tiny bit of sound as you do sometimes when
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people have headphones up way loud. But for general usage, if you're at the beach, if you're skiing
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if you're just out for a walk in the neighborhood, then if you're driving, if you're on public
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transport, no one's going to know. No one's going to have any idea you're listening to anything
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Now IP52, so they are water and dust resistant. So if you're wearing these and it starts to rain
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you don't have to worry about having something bad happen. Pretty important. Bluetooth 5.0
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so there's really no issues with having things short out, which is important. And battery life
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Well, the glasses themselves have a four hour battery life, but one of the things they've
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really done well is they've really thought through the whole charging thing. Now I've
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looked at other glasses with built-in speakers and they tend to have like custom wires and
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special things you got to do. This, it's all integrated into this case. So the case is kind of
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big, but you just put the glasses in and that's it. They're charging. So they actually have connectors
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on the edges of the arms that are only exposed when it's folded up. And then on the sides here
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in the case are connectors. So drop them in, like I said, and you're good to go. There's even a light
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that shows that it's made the connection. And then on the front, there are four lights that will
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illuminate to tell you the status of the battery in the case. And if the case needs charging
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it's a USB-C connection. And in the box, along with a really remarkable number of different
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documents and a lot of languages, is a small USB-C, USB 3 to USB-C cable, but you can plug any
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USB-C charging cable into this. So if you have, like me, a computer that uses USB-C, I just plug
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this straight into my computer and was charging it, no problem. So how many charges do you get
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out of the case? I don't know. I couldn't figure that spec out from the company, but one assumes
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at least one more charge, probably two or three. But I would say you probably get a solid full day
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out of these, but after three or four hours, you're going to have to put them in the case to charge
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for a little bit. Honestly, that's probably okay. If you're like me, if you're out skiing or you're
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on the beach or you're just going biking down the boardwalk or something, then you got to take a
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break every so often. So if you're indoors, grabbing a couple of good tacos and a margarita, put these
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in the case, let them charge up and then you're ready to go back outside. Just take them right out
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again and I can hear that Fauna is on, Fauna is pairing, Fauna is connected. So just like that
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they're back and connected to my phone and I'm ready to listen to more music or whatever. So
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with all that in mind, let's talk about the sound because these are like all the devices in this
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category, they don't have fantastic sound. These are not really audiophile devices. They're not
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bone conducting, they're not going in your ear, they're not going over your ear, they're meant
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to be some sort of a hybrid. So if you're on the phone with someone, they have a lot of microphones
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the phone sounds fantastic. These are so good for being on the phone and I assume you could
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use them on something like Clubhouse too, where mostly you're listening in the people's voices
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that's all going to sound fantastic. They're really good at the frequencies of human voice
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You'll sound really good when you decide you want to talk. So all that's really good. How about music
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Well, music's pretty good. What I would say is it's doing a decent job reproducing the music
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but there's no soundstage at all. There's no depth or richness to the music. It's really not designed
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for that sort of thing. If you want to listen to the latest symphony and you want it to sound like
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you're sitting in the middle of that symphony hall, then you really don't want a device like
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this. You probably just want a pair of ear headphones that are just going to block out
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every environmental sound around you. Not always optimal, but for these, they'll work okay. You can
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use these as the audio if you're streaming video off of your device. I will tell you, there's no
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latency issues. That's an important issue for people. And all in all, I really like these. I
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think these are really cool. And mostly I like it because it's so stealthy. I have these on. You
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have no idea that I might be listening to a podcast or listening to my favorite music or radio station
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or even being involved in a clubhouse or some other audio chat system. Or I might be on a phone
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call. All of that just happened to be really cool looking sunglasses. So lots to like here. Now, as
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with the other ones in this category, these are also a little spendy. So let's get to the price
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But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you don't mind, go ahead and click or tap on
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that subscribe button on the lower right. And you can connect with me and my channel. And I really
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appreciate that. Cool. Now, these are the Fauna Designer Audio Glasses with Speakers and they are
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$299 at wherefauna.com. The company is out of Germany. They are very EU friendly if you're in
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one of the other EU countries. And I will say that they also talk about getting the Fauna app
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but I didn't even really mention it because I don't really understand the purpose of the app
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I think it's more for like reminders for you to like take a break and stuff. So really not
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integral to the experience of using these. These are just a Bluetooth device. You pair them
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You're ready to rock and roll. You put them on. I have my music on right now and you have no idea
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that's happening. So big fan. That's all I got. I'll catch you in my next video
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