The world first fully 3D printed and personal ear buds. The buyer can order their custom designs and choose materials through an application. Once an order is placed the buyer has a couple of options for fitting. They can either order an ear molding kit and mold their ears themselves for around $5 or if they want they can get their ears professionally molded at an audiologist and send off the molds to Accord to be 3D scanned.

 

Accord prepares the 3D files to receive the drivers and buttons; ready to 3D print in the buyers chosen material. The parts are then printed on demand and assembled. This negates the need for a mass production runs and leads to a more sustainable product. A product that could be could easily be localise buy 3D printing firms sharing production around the world to reduce cost, lower carbon footprint from shipping and create jobs.

 

Special thanks to Genevieve Small and Joshua Goulding

 

Made for production in early 2014