News & Reviews:   headphone

When Nothing unveiled its first headphone and latest smartphone earlier in July, opinions on them were mixed. Is Nothing staying true to its philosophy of being different a good idea? Here's a personal take on the company's new Nothing Phone (3) and Nothing Headphone (1).

The Sony WF-1000XM4 headphone and WH-1000XM4 earphones are currently among the best wireless audio devices available. But they do feel bland in terms of colours. If you plan to get any of them, you might want to wait for the newly revealed special edition.

When you talk about premium audio, Sennheiser would be one of the biggest brands around. Yet that company could be looking to sell its consumer electronics business, allowing another company to take over.

According to Instructables, invisible headphones are more or less tiny magnets that you insert into your ears that pick up signals from a coil of magnetic metal fashioned into a necklace. When connected to an amplifier and MP3 player it allows you to have invisible wireless headphones. While the Instructables site it was based on tells you to put the magnets in your ears, Rich Lee went one step further and had them implanted permanently. While he still has to wear the coil necklace and amplifier to pick up sound, it works much in the same way as the bone induction audio used by Google Glass. He says:

"Listening to music is nice and probably the most obvious answer, but I intend to do some very creative things with it. I can see myself using it with the GPS on my smartphone to navigate city streets on foot. I plan to hook it up to a directional mic of some sort (possibly disguised as a shirt button or something) so I can hear conversations across a room. Having a mic hooked up to it and routed through my phone would be handy."