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St. Louis-based startup Blipcast demonstrated a product/app of the same name at CES 2016 that lets one or more person listen to audio from their TV via headphones connected to a smartphone.

Connect the small box shown here to an audio output on your TV (or computer) and it uses your Wi-Fi network to send “CD-quality” sound to iOS and Android smartphones (an app for each is in the works).

Here’s how the company describes the product on its Kickstarter page:

“Blipcast is for night owls who want to actually hear their television without having to fear waking up their partner or roommates. It's for new parents who have to decide between watching that new show they're into or letting their baby sleep. It's for hearing impaired people who need the TV volume to be a bit louder.

Until now, the only solution has been bulky, single-user, wireless TV headsets with ugly transmitters that need to be re-charged and left sitting out.

So we set out to make a simpler and more elegant solution to this problem, for people who want to watch TV at full volume without disturbing others.

The projected price for Blipcast is $99 and estimated delivery is November—assuming, of course, the company hits its funding goal of $100,000. With only 13 days to go, Blipcast has raised almost $27,000 or just over a quarter of its goal.

Blipcast strikes us as a great idea but can its creators hit their funding target? For more information, visit Blipcast’s page on kickstarter.com.