Most earplugs are built for your ear canal. Ears 360 Silence was built for your pillow as well. The French-designed earplug swaps the usual foam cylinder or silicone bud for a soft, retractable spiral that curls against the outer ear instead of wedging deep inside. The promise is simple: stay put through a full night’s sleep, filter out unwanted noise, and disappear until you forget it’s there.
The mechanism behind that promise is simple engineering. Twist the spiral open, tuck it against the ridges of your outer ear, then let it retract back into shape. It locks in place through geometry, not pressure, so there’s no tip wedged deep into your ear canal, nothing to ache by 2 a.m. The whole body sits nearly flat, flat enough to sleep on your side.
Designer: Youcef Abdaoui
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That geometry matters most at night. Side sleepers know the drill: a plug that protrudes gets crushed against the pillow, and foam that expands too much starts to throb before sunrise. With the Ears 360 Silence tucked into the curve of your ear, nothing stands proud enough to notice. You roll over, the plug stays where you left it, and the room stays quiet until your alarm decides otherwise.
Sleep isn’t the only place this earplug earns its keep. Slip it in at a coffee shop or an open-plan office, and it softens the clatter around you without shutting out the person talking across the table. That’s the filtering trick at work, dialing down ambient chaos while keeping voices intelligible. And because the spiral sits low against the ear, nobody nearby even notices you’re wearing it.
Of course, comfort isn’t the whole story. Ears 360 Silence carries a certified 24 dB noise reduction rating under the EN 352-2:2020 standard, independently lab-tested rather than self-reported. Its attenuation peaks right around the frequency range where snoring and conversation both live, exactly where extra help matters most. It’s also rated IPX7 for water resistance and ships standard with four pairs of tips: S, M, L and a double-flange pair
Swap the standard tip for the clip-on triple-flange tip from the Swim & Work Kit, sold as a separate add-on, and attenuation climbs toward 29 dB. That’s enough for a construction site or a pool deck without having to switch out a different pair of buds. The tips swap in seconds, so the same pair that quiets a bedroom at night can handle a job site or open water the next afternoon.
Build quality is, of course, top-notch as well. The body is soft silicone, meant to be reused for years rather than tossed after one restless night, and it wipes clean easily. Four pairs of tips come in every box, so the fit adjusts to your ear rather than the other way around. Plus, the whole kit tucks into a case small enough to close in one hand, so there’s absolutely no reason you can’t take it anywhere with you, even if you’re not going to bed just yet.
Design touches carry through to the small stuff, too. The Ears 360 Silence comes in black, pink, and green, each paired with a case in the same shade, small enough to vanish into a pocket. And with the latest stretch goal reached, every backer gets a soft silicone neck cord, one per pair, to keep your Ears 360 Silence around your neck between uses. The whole object reads more like a considered accessory than a medical necessity you’d hide in a drawer, something you’d actually want sitting on your nightstand in plain sight.
Wake up after a full night wearing one, and you’ll notice what’s missing rather than what’s there. No hunting around the sheets for a stray foam cylinder, no ache in your ear canal from a tip jammed in too far. Just a quiet room and a plug that did its one job so well you forgot you were wearing it, which was the entire point.
$35 (30% off). Hurry, only a few left! Raised over $40,000.
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