Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 review: Cheaper, better, and actually able to track sleep

After careful hands-on testing, we feature our favorite gear and gadgets as Mashable Selects products in our dedicated shopping guides. In a year where price hikes and the enshittification of tech products are more common than is ideal, the Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 are a very pleasant surprise. I'm not going to lie — I doubted Ozlo. Maybe it was the the $50 price jump of the original Sleepbuds last year, or maybe it was the fact that the original buds were leaps and bounds more expensive than other popular options (yet lacked any noise cancelling or sleep tracking features). Yet, here I stand corrected. The Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 are available for $279. While still firmly at the luxury price point for sleep earbuds, they're $80 cheaper than the post-price bump $349 OG Sleepbuds, and cheaper still than the first gen's $299 launch price. Rather than using this as an excuse to pare down, Ozlo scaled up, adding comprehensive sleep tracking while retaining the streamlined performance that put the first Sleepbuds on the map. So what's the result? I spent many a night's sleep to find out. What I liked: The addition of sleep tracking is a huge upgrade, especially thanks to the comprehensive analysis in