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Hoyee Eyes Smart Bluetooth Glasses -- REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Imagine a pair of stealth earbuds that are integrated into your cool new sunglasses. Speakers by each ear, a microphone on the front portion, and no indication to anyone that they're anything more than just a new pair of 'shade. That's what the Hoyee Eyes Smart Bluetooth Glasses offer. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checked out two pair of the Hoyee Eyes line, a Luna pair and a Viva pair, and found them pretty darn cool. Once you wrestled with a few of their quirks... Check 'em on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3hWToPy Hoyee Eyes official site: https://hoyeeeyes.com/collections/bluetooth-glasses
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Bluetooth smart glasses? What the heck? Let's check these out
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Hey man, Dave Taylor here and I'm checking these out. These are sunglasses, but they're not. They're
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actually Bluetooth smart glasses. These are the HoyiEyes Nova Bluetooth smart glasses. And what
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makes these particularly interesting is that each arm is actually a true wireless stereo speaker and
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microphone. So together I have two little tiny speakers right by my ears and I'm listening to
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music. So I put these on and I'm enjoying some classic early super tramp. And you have no idea
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no one around me can hear it unless I turn it super loud. And it has microphones so I can use
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this for phone calls too. What a crazy cool idea. Now the industry term for this is they are open
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ear hands-free. So the TWS, true wireless stereo, actually features aptX and Bluetooth 5.0. So
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pairing and getting it all to work is a bit of a bear. We'll come back to that in a minute. But once
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you get there, these are really fun and it takes about an hour to charge them from dead and they
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will run for three or four hours. And you charge them using this included rather interesting
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charging cable. So it is two chargers and then the other end is just a USB 3.0. So you plug it into
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your handy charger and you just put it on the bottom. And let's see, get this both oriented
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correctly. And so now if I plug this into the wall, it'll be charging. When I play it back
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it's three to four hours of playback time and there is a touch sensor on the arm. So I can
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for example, push and hold and after a couple seconds it'll turn off and then that same gesture
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will turn it on again. So pretty handy. Turns out that because they're using Bluetooth 5.0
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it also has incredibly low latency. So if you want to watch something like the latest Netflix
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on your computer or on your phone and you want to use these as your stealth audio source
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works great. Everything's nice and in sync. And for phone calls, I was surprised. It's a little
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soft, but the audio quality is quite good. So if you want to do this and you're walking along
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let me pause Super Tramp, and you're walking along and you want to just be talking to someone
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you can use a fairly normal tone of voice. They're going to hear you surprisingly well
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and you're going to hear them well, and you have nothing in your ears, nothing over your ears
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These are really great for sports. So you can go for a bike ride and hear all the environment and
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ambient noise around you and listen to your favorite music or be on a super long phone
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call with someone. So they come in lots and lots of different styles. In fact, I have two different
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styles here. Let me hold these while I pull out this other pair. And I have three kids ranging
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from 23 to 16. And I will tell you that when they pulled these out, they immediately claimed dibs on
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them. So this style is perhaps slightly less masculine than the black ones. But either way
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really nice looking glasses, and they have a pretty good build feel to them. The materials
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they use is good. They use what's known as TR-90 frame material. What's TR-90? So it's a material
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called grillamid TR-90, and it's a transparent polyamide or polyamide with good heat resistance
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and excellent fatigue behavior. It's actually a kind of plastic designed specifically for glasses
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and toothbrushes and things like that. So that gives you some flexibility, but a lot of strength
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They have really, the hinges are really good and solid and tight. And they use, in fact, it really
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looks like just regular glasses. So you'd need like jeweler's screwdriver to tighten them and stuff
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And the metal ones, very, very nice looking. The glass that they use is actually by default a UV
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400 blue light blocking glass. And this one, I don't know if you can tell, but there's a gradient
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So the top is really dark and the bottom is barely tinted at all. I'm not a huge fan of those for
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sunglasses, but I totally understand the logic of the sun's up there. So you want that part to be
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darker. So they certainly are very comfortable and easy to wear when you're out and about. And
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hopefully I look reasonably cool wearing them. So let's see, there's two primary models. So there's
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the Luna model, which are these, which is all polycarbonate and nylon. And then they have their
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Viva line, which has the metal rim, which is this style. And you can see it comes with glass, but
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here's what's cool. You can get your own prescription if you want. So you can work with the
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company, send them your prescription, and they'll send you a pair of these all ready to go and enjoy
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with your prescription already installed. That's pretty fun. Now, let me just tell you, oh, I
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suppose I should also say comes with this nice case as you saw. So that's handy to be able to carry
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them around. But let's talk about the sound. Okay. So there's two things I really want to talk about
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Number one, the sound and it's perfectly listenable. It is perfectly functional sound, but you have a
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teeny tiny speaker in front of your ear and nothing in or over your ear. And there's no bass at all. I
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mean, there's just none. So if you're going to wear something like these and expect to get a full audio
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experience, then your expectations might need to be recalibrated. It's just not going to happen. But, you
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know, if you just want to have some sound while you're on a jog or a bike ride or just, you know, hanging
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out waiting for the subway or something, then these might work really well for you. They'll be perfect
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for podcasts, you know, so the audio quality is good, but it's not a full audiophile experience by any
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stretch of the imagination, nor should you expect that. Now, the other thing that was tricky with these is
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pairing. So in both cases, when we first paired them with our devices, we'd get one ear, not the other. And
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then if you looked on the Bluetooth, you'd see that you had two different entries in Bluetooth. And the
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problem there is I think from the factory, the two arms aren't actually paired together. That's what it
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seems like. Because in both cases, we had that problem. We unpaired, we repaired, none of that helped. What
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helped was when we did a hard reset on the glasses themselves. And you do that by plugging it in to
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charge. And while it's charging, pushing and holding both sides down for about five seconds. Then there's a
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tiny little LED light, it changes color. And that's basically cleared these out and re-synced the two arm
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pieces. And then when I paired it to my phone, it worked fine. And you know, it was just like, Oh, listen, both ears. You
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sort of start worrying about something wrong with my hearing because I'm getting nothing out of left or nothing out of
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right. But once you get through that sort of hassle of the initial Bluetooth pairing, and honestly, their documentation
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should probably just warn you, this is what's going to happen. And this is what you're going to need to do. Company is
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pretty responsive. But still, you want an out of the box experience where you pull them out, you push a button, and you're
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ready to go and they work right. And these are not that. So there's a little bit of fiddling to get it to work the first
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time. But of course, once they're paired, I'm done. So now I put them on and I push play. And I'm right back to
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Supertramp. In fact, let's see what else I have here. Oh, here we go. Some classic Alan Parsons project. I mean, all of
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this stuff. This is like beach music, right? Now, of course, if I was at the beach, I'd probably want my music louder
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because I want to show everyone what good taste I have in music. But if you're a little bit more private than that, these are a
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really fun idea. And I think their implementation is pretty darn good. Once you overcome number one, the challenge of
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getting it to pair properly. And number two, that recalibration of your expectations that you're really getting the high
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range and some mid tones, but no bass at all. So once you actually expect that and have that as your sort of, you know
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parameters for what it's going to be like having sunglasses that you can answer a phone call or you can listen to music or a
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podcast is pretty sweet. So lots to like about these. Now, let's talk about the price. But before we get to the price, and I just
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can't do it, I can't just wear these the whole time. So I apologize if you want me to do that. I guess I can switch to these, we
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can do this part, right? So before we get to the price, I am going to ask if you can go ahead and subscribe to my channel, really
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appreciate when you do that, just tap or click on that little red subscribe button. Super easy. And while you're at it, give me some
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feedback. What do you think? What should I have mentioned about these? What should I talk about that I didn't? So that's all good
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stuff. So all right, now we get to the price. So these are two different models of the Hoyi eyes, Bluetooth smart glasses, and they are
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125.95 at amazon.com. And they are pretty darn fun. You know, can you get earbuds at that price that are going to give you better
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sound? And maybe even something where you can get the earbuds and sunglasses? Yeah, probably. But are they all combined? Are they actually
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going to be more fun? And something where your friends will be like you what that does what so there's a high fun factor with these and that
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makes these really kind of fun novelties. I could totally imagine like skateboarding down at Venice Beach with these on and no one would have a
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clue and you'd be jamming to your tunes. And even if people look to your ears, you don't have anything on or in your ears. So what the heck's going
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on? Right? Pretty cool. So with that, my dudes, we'll catch you in my next video
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