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Edifier WH950NB and WH500 Honoured with Red Dot Design Award

Recognized for its innovation in design excellence, Edifier International Ltd., today announced that its WH950NB and WH500 Wireless headphones have received the 2023 Red Dot Award for Product Design. Companies from 60 countries submit over 18,000 products to compete for the internationally recognized mark of quality, the Red Dot. The Red Dot Design Award is a coveted international product design prize – both the WH950NB and WH500 satisfy the high standards of aesthetics which the jury require.

“Edifier are privileged to receive 2 Red Dot 2023 awards. Two years ago, the TWS NB2 Pro won a coveted Red Dot award and now the WH950NB and the WH500 have been honoured. Edifier places great emphasis on the design and manufacture of premium audio solutions that showcase our technological innovation and design excellence. We are truly grateful that the Edifier team – right from the initial product conception, design, to manufacture and marketing – is recognized by the Red Dot judges,” said Stanley Wen, Edifier’s CTO.

The two winning Edifier headphones are very different and have been carefully designed to appeal to the widest group of consumers. The WH950NB features the very latest in technologies with certification to both “Hi Resolution Audio” and “Hi Resolution Audio Wireless” standards with LDAC certification. The WH500 features fast charging, affordability, up to 40 hours music playtime and the Edifier Connect APP for personalising EQ settings and various music modes whilst continuing the brand’s outstanding record for inexpensive but premium quality audio products.

The WH950NB headphones have been expertly tuned by Edifier’s world class audio team to deliver professional, studio grade sound. Whether it’s listening to music, audiobooks/podcasts, gaming, using for conference calls or travel, the Edifier WH950NB provides exceptional levels of control and audio as users utilize a selection of highly competitive features.

Main Features:

  • Active Noise Cancellation + Ambient Sound selection
  • LDAC codec with Hi-Res Audio Wireless certification
  • Advanced 4-Mic ENC for the best voice clarity
  • Personalization EQ and select various music modes in Edifier Connect APP
  • Supports Google Fast Pair for Android users
  • 1.5 hours fully charged for at least 34 hours playtime (ANC ON)/ 55 hours (ANC OFF) 
  • Fast Charging: 7 hours play back in just 10 minutes
  • 40mm dynamic driver
  • Double Protection for safe hearing: Volume less than 85dB and a cut off timer
  • Foldable and lightweight design. Ideal for daily use, conference meetings and travel
  • Available in White or Black at £179.99 from https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BM92D2D1

 

The Edifier WH500 guarantees you a wonderful audio journey with the small yet powerful 30mm composite dynamic driver (PU+PEEK). It accurately presents pure and clear audio for all kinds of music through well-tuned transitions from clear treble, and full mid-range to strong bass. 

 

Main Features:

  • Personalize EQ and select various music modes via Edifier Connect APP. 
  • 2hrs fully charged for 40hrs music playtime. 
  • Fast charging: 6hrs playback in just 10mins. 
  • 30mm dynamic driver 
  • Double protection for safe hearing: Volume less than 85dB and a cut off timer
  • Foldable and lightweight design. Ideal for daily use and travel. 
  • Trendy color options for users to match their style
  • Available in White or Black at £44.99 from: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edifier-WH500-Wireless-Ear-Headphones-Blue/dp/B0BF9DX2WC/

 

Irish InsurTech Kayna Wins Insurtech NY Award

Kayna, an Irish InsurTech outfit that developed a unique embedded insurance infrastructure, enabling distribution through vertical SaaS, has won the Carrier/Broker Competition for Global Early-Stage Insurtech at InsurTech NY’s Spring Conference held in New York.

The co-founding pair of Paul Prendergast, CEO and Peter Bermingham, CTO developed the solution to provide the technology orchestration layer between Insurance Carriers, Brokers and any Vertical SaaS platform to distribute insurance products. This novel technology-enabling layer is optimised for Embedded Insurance distribution.

Kayna’s No-Code embed integrates with Vertical SaaS platforms that manage the daily operations for thousands of SMB customers. It leverages the unique data of that platform to provide insurance products specific to the needs of each business. It then tracks the relevant changes to the data to enable real-time updates to insurance policies, which adapt continuously to changes within a business. This ensures that Carriers and Brokers are seamlessly serving SMBs with relevant policies based on real-time SMB data and in turn SMBs benefit from the provision of right-sized insurance cover.

Speaking of the win, Kayna CEO Paul Prendergast, commented that, “This award is a great validation of our technology and business model. We are focused on working with carriers and brokers to allow them to compete in an increasingly crowded SMB insurance sector. As an enabling-technology company, we provide an end-to-end service regardless of carrier and broker technology capability and our infrastructure works across any platform to use real-time SMB data. This is unique and transformative in terms of embedded insurance distribution and it fixes a massive problem of over and under insurance. We were honoured to compete with the brightest InsurTech talent in the world for this win which represents huge opportunity, giving us exposure to 10+ early-stage investors and insurance leaders, and the chance to present in front of 400+ InsurTech influencers live in New York.”

David Gritz , Managing Director InsurTech NY, in announcing the win stated that, “The Carrier/ Broker award is given to the startup that is seen to have the largest commercial potential. The award was developed to recognise the innovative early stage innovators in the space.” 

How it Works

Kayna accesses Vertical SaaS platform for SMB operations data

Kayna embeds Carrier/Broker with No-Code

Kayna deploys end-to-end orchestration layer

Kayna enables Insurance distribution

Kayna actively conducts real-time SMB data tracking, enabling Vertical SaaS platform to serve unique, real-time carrier/broker insurance solutions to platform customers providing them with relevant, right-sized policy offers.

The Embedded Insurance market is forecast to grow to US$722bn in GWP by 2030 – more than six times its current size.