These Next Generation Headphones Don’t Even Go in Your Ears

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How technology from hearing aids is making headphones smarter and safer

GOOD VIBRATIONS The Shokz OpenRun Pro have a more balanced sound profile than their predecessors, but they let you hear your surroundings.constants in headphone design. Even the word “headphone” can refer to a range of dissimilar gizmos, be they expensive over-ear noise cancellers or cheap wired earbuds. With practically all of these, you can take one thing for granted—they only work because they point their speakers inside your ear.

Bone-conduction headphones are built differently, using tech developed for hearing aids. They rest above your ears, leaving your ear canal unencumbered, and vibrate against the part of your skull adjacent to your inner ear, responsible for what we hear. “While a typical [headphone] sends sound waves through your ear canal…bone conduction merely tricks your brain into thinking this is occurring,” said Dr. Hillary Snapp, chief of audiology at the University of Miami Ear Institute.

 

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Poor guy. Ran way too much.

I love when technology solves something that was never a problem 🥴

but how are people supposed to know not to talk to me

Yo our dude looks pretty fucking far away from going for a run any time soon brev.

I mean…. Prolly don’t post them on a picture of a skull but.. ok

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