JBL Reflect Fit Heart Rate Wireless Headphones
- These read your heart rate from your ear and recite it to you at the push of a (heart) button.
- They also transmit your heart rate to most fitness apps for logging.
- IPX5 water resistant for when you are your stinkiest. Err, sweatiest.
- Has a 10-hour battery life for those 10-hour workouts.
- Vibrates when a call comes in, so basically a free massage with spammers these days.
- Choose any color you want! And then see which of the colors we’re offering comes closest to that color!
- Model: JBLREFFIT. I’m going to add ‘FIT’ to my name and hope it comes true, too.
Mixtapes: High Art Of The Heart
We see a pair of wireless headphones with a built-in heart rate monitor and our first thought is:
What’s the point?
Maybe this has to do with us selling a set of nostalgia-laden designs celebrating the mixtape cassette over at Mediocritee. That truly was the golden age of love expressed by way of ordered songs, was it not?
Because the effort meant something. You couldn’t just say: what songs do I want to put on this mix? You’d have to find the tapes of the songs, or find the songs on the radio, or find the songs on the tapes you made from the radio. Then, you’d have to get the timing just right. Line it up a little too early? You record over the end of the last song. Too late? There’s extra silence and the recipient turns their walkman off, thinking the tape is over.
Now, it’s easier. You can search a streaming service and find some obscure track from the 1950s in a matter of seconds, right click it, and add it to a playlist. But it’s not the same. You can show your would-be lovers that you have great taste in music. Yet, without having to spend hours just to produce 60ish minutes of popping, hissing, second-hand love songs, how will they know you really care?
In other words, a playlist might entertain, but it’ll never make your heart race like a mixtape. So why bother with a pair of headphones that can measure your heart rate in this day and age?
Oh, right. For exercise.
Yikes. We really misinterpreted this one.
