Protect your hearing with Sennheiser’s acoustic expertise, create 3-D models with your smartphone and Epic’s RealityScan.

Sennheiser’s reusable earbuds are designed to preserve hearing

Hearing protection is important, and Sennheiser’s SoundProtex earplugs are reusable protection for your hearing designed by a company that knows sound.

The earplugs are designed with filters that lower decibel levels while maintaining the clarity of sound. Sennheiser says that the filters dampen low frequencies more completely while keeping some higher frequency details, so you’re still able to hear speech even while wearing the earplugs.

These are better than the cheap, foam earplugs you get at the dollar or drug store, and they have three sizes of ear tips to provide maximum comfort.

The SoundProtext ($50) come with two filters, medium for festivals and events and a total block filter that surrounds you in silence.

The SoundProtex Plus ($100) adds two filters, a strong filter for loud music events, motorsports, or when you’re using power tools, and a low filter for busy offices or bars.

Create 3-D models with your smartphone or tablet using RealityScan

RealityScan is a free application that will turn your photos of real world objects into “high-fidelity 3D models”.

It comes from Epic, which creates and publishes video games, and develops Unreal, software used by many other developers to create their own games.

It’s no secret why Epic would make RealityScan available for free. Unreal is also available for free. Epic’s idea is to make the tools for game development available to everyone. If you’re an indie developer, you only need to start paying for Unreal after you’ve earned more than $1 million USD.

And these tools aren’t only used for game development. As 3-D tools, they can be used for any animation or art project.

RealityScan is available for Android and iOS.