When it comes to people using their smart devices on a daily, it’s safe to say that both our Smartphones and Smart Home Speakers provide us with an incredible amount of convenience. Whether that’s for placing a simple food order online via an App or via Alexa’s Voice Controls, regulating our home’s smart thermostat unit, or even getting regular calendar reminders via Smartphone Notifications or by Alexa’s own Voice Reminders, our Smartphones and Smart Speakers can truly make our lives a whole lot easier. However, as we all know, all of this convenience obviously comes with a cost; a heavy cost that takes away our privacy and the privacy of our loved ones, with all of that information being collected by or even sold to Big Data companies for different marketing purposes. Nevertheless, there’s now a reliable way of taking back your privacy without compromising the convenience offered by your smart devices. Meet the Pozio Listening Blockers.
The Pozio Listening Blockers are listening-blocking devices designed specifically to render the privacy intrusions from Smartphones and Smart Speakers completely obsolete.
Designed by a Tech Company called Pozio, who’s on a mission to help people take back their privacy without compromising the convenience afforded by their smart devices, these listening-blockers for smart devices allow you to take back your privacy without having to lose the huge convenience that your smart devices are meant to provide you in today’s tech-driven lifestyle.
Within Pozio’s product line of listening-blockers for smart devices, we have two different models available. Designed specifically for blocking-out privacy intrusions from Smartphones, we have the Pozio Cradle Smartphone Blocker. Additionally, coming specifically designed for blocking-out privacy intrusions from Smart Speakers, we also have the Pozio Shield Smart Speaker Blocker.
With these two simple, yet extremely ingenious listening-blocking devices, you can ensure in a completely safe way that never again will your Smartphone or your Smart Home Speaker take away your privacy.
Now, let’s have a more detailed look at the Pozio Listening Blockers and check out how they’re designed, talk a bit more about both different models available for Smartphones and Smart Speakers, and see exactly how these listening-blocking devices are designed to work.
DESIGN
Starting with the design on these listening-blocking devices, both of Pozio’s Listening Blocker products – meaning both the Pozio Cradle for Smartphones as well as the Pozio Shield for Smart Speakers – feature a gorgeous, minimalist, and ultra-modern design, and each of these listening-blocking docks for smart devices can safely block all unwanted listening whenever you require.
AVAILABLE MODELS
As said before, Pozio’s product line of listening-blockers for smart devices features two different models of listening-blockers.
Designed specifically for blocking-out privacy intrusions from Smartphones, we have the Pozio Cradle Smartphone Blocker, while for blocking-out privacy intrusions from Smart Speakers, we have the Pozio Shield Smart Speaker Blocker.
Pozio Cradle
The Pozio Cradle is an outstanding listening-blocking device for Smartphones that features a sleek design, working based on Pozio’s proprietary voice-controlled listening blocking technology.
Coming available in Black or White, the Cradle features a thick audio-blocking layer that’s designed to block any potential listening from your Smartphone’s built-in microphone(s).
Not only that, but the dock itself is also designed to provide Qi Wireless Charging for Smartphones, which it a great second functionality to have whenever you see that your Smartphone is running out of juice, ultimately giving you one extra reason to use the Cradle as your everyday Smartphone accessory.
Moreover, at the top side of the unit, we also have a Manual On/Off Switch that can be used to trigger the device to block / unblock the listening capabilities of Smartphone’s microphone for extended periods of time.
Pozio Shield
Then, for blocking-out the listening capabilities from Smart Speakers, we have the Pozio Shield, which is a sleek listening-blocking smart speaker dock that’s meant to be used with Smart Speakers.
Also coming available in Black or White, the Shield is available in two different sizes, which are designed to fit nearly all of today’s most-popular smart speaker units, including: the Amazon Echo Dot 2, 3, and 4th Gen, as well as the Amazon Echo Studio, Echo Plus (2nd gen), and Echo 3rd Gen, and also both the Google Home Mini and Google Nest Mini.
Note that due to the unique shape of the Pozio Shield Listening-Blocker for Smart Speakers (or the microphone positioning of some Smart Speaker models that weren’t mentioned), there are some smart speakers that cannot be used with the Pozio Shield, including the Apple HomePod and HomePod Mini, the Google Nest Audio, Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max, and also the Google Home Max (original-model).
Featuring an innovative listening-blocking design for actively blocking any potential listening from your Smartphone’s built-in microphone(s) and a Manual On/Off Switch that makes it easy to enable or disable the unit’s listening-blocking functionality, the Pozio Cradle does it job in a flawless manner.
Moreover, the unit also comes integrated with Pozio’s proprietary voice-controlled listening blocking technology, which we’ll explain just ahead exactly how that works.
HOW DO THEY WORK?
The way both of these listening-blocking docks for smart devices are designed to work is by using state-of-the-art patented digital signal processing technology to prevent the always-listening microphones on your smart devices from being able to record, process, store, and upload audio to the cloud.
Thanks to that, these listening-blocking docks for smart devices ultimately allow you to prevent the microphones on your smart devices from hearing any of your private conversations.
Moreover, since the folks at Pozio actually recognize the true value of user privacy, neither of their Pozio Listening Blocker devices are connected to the internet, nor do either of their two listening-blocking devices come equipped with a hard drive, so they also can’t record and store any sort of audio-based data.
In other words, the Pozio Listening Blockers are designed to do their privacy-blocking discreetly and without disturbing anyone else, constantly working until you finally give these devices permission to listen again.
As such, whenever you want to disable the listening-blocking functionality from your Pozio Listening Blocker (whether its the Pozio Cradle for Smartphones or the Pozio Shield for Smart Speakers), all you have to do is use their embedded Wake Word Recognition Technology, which allows these listening-blocking docks for smart devices to “wake up”.
For doing that, users can simply say, “Pozio Stop,” in order to turn off their unit’s sound blocking technology for a short-period of 30 seconds, thus allowing them to then access the Smart Voice Assistants from their Smartphones or Smart Speakers via Voice Commands just like they would normally do.
Finally, after those 30 seconds pass, your Pozio Listening Blocker(s) will get back to its (their) default Listening-Blocking Mode.
HOW TO USE?
Using either of the Pozio Listening Blockers is also easy and very, very simple, as all you have to do is to plug-in your Pozio Listening-Blocking device to power, and then just insert your smart device (either your Smartphone or your Smart Speaker) on their respective Pozio unit (Pozio Cradle for Smartphones or Pozio Shield for Smart Speakers).
And that’s pretty much it. After having your smart device installed inside its respective Pozio Listening-Blocking device, no longer will the built-in microphones on that said device will be able to ever again listen and collect data from your private conversations.
FINAL THOUGHTS
The Pozio Listening Blockers are listening-blocking devices designed specifically to render the privacy intrusions from Smartphones and Smart Speakers completely obsolete.
Designed specifically for blocking-out privacy intrusions from Smartphones, we have the Pozio Cradle Smartphone Blocker, while for blocking-out privacy intrusions from Smart Speakers, we have the Pozio Shield Smart Speaker Blocker.
With these two ingenious listening-blocking devices, you can ensure in a completely safe way that never again will your Smartphone or your Smart Home Speaker take away your privacy.
If you’re interested in getting either of these two innovative and revolutionary listening-blocking devices, you can already pre-order your by pledging a minimum of $112 to Pozio’s Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign, which, mind you, is around $60 off from the future retailing price of the Pozio Listening Blockers.
