nope, still dorky

User Formerly known as Arelar

Huh. I've already been pulled over on my bike for using headphones. I wonder if these would fly, or if I'd get that ticket next time.

Can we see a review of these bad boys?

smackswell

Damn. barely start my day and already i come across some penis monger proclaiming his abilities to F5 like no other with a battle cry of "First".

always liked the idea of bone conduction headphones, never liked the idea of $190 headphones.

ArrogantAce

@fleebailey33: ....and last, because you'll be gone.

These sound interesting, but for people who want to save their money, just using cheap earbuds and putting the near their ears/cranking them up loud would be a much cheaper alternative.

kylo4

first.
cause im bored

fleebailey33

@smackswell: Hmm, that brings up a good point. I wonder how much bone conduction sound conflicts with or interferes with the ability to process external sound.

Bogus83

When playing games and using teamspeak I have the game sound on speakers and teamspeak on a headset.
These might be a great alternative to the headset, all depends on how much they interfer with other sounds you hear.
Looking forward to a review.

TetsuBo

I too would be verrrry interested in a review of said bad boys.

collider

i think the only way headphones in generally are NOT DORKY, is if you see some cute girl wearing them, and playing a FPS game on PC.

ive seen it plenty of times when i wallk by PC cafes..and its pretty damn cute because it somehow adds to the fashion...especially when they're asian girls lol

wahrugene

Eh, I don't know. 12kHz is kinda on the low side. These seem like they'd sound flat.

Sticks Calhoun

these are cool, you guys are comment narks... calm it down...

johnthevulcan

Bone conducting headphones sound like a one way ticket to a smashing headache.

Curves

needs a model shot to see how dorky they may or may not look. or maybe chen will pants them for us.

godwhacker

i would be very interested in how these compared to similarly priced units from grado or shure

f0rge

@Sticks Calhoun: Exactly. 12k is not nearly high enough to produce a full range of sound. Humans normally hear frequencies between 20Hz and 20kHz or so. These things are lifetime-of-punk-show-induced-high-frequency-hearing-loss simulators.
Besides, isn't it time someone invented nervephones? I'm thinking like Dennis Quaid's optic nerve clamp in Innerspace.

JWhitney

12k would be fine for voice, but music would be awful...

ShinySideUp

@JWhitney:

AhhhH!!!!! It's like someone stuck a dagger in my eye!!!

Parapraxis

@User Formerly known as Arelar:

Agreed

DssTrainer

They definitely need to work out the frequency kink but this would be great for pedestrians and cyclists. Though Im not sure how legal that is depending on where you live.

Overheal

@Curves: Regular headphones and even glasses/sunglasses give me migraines, so I've got my fingers crossed that these might somehow be different!

collider

I wanna test one of those.
Price isn't too high for something this new, and I'd like to spare my eardrums some beating because I'm pretty shure I'm going the Eric Clapton way...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@godwhacker: Isn't Chen required to pants something dubbed as bone conducting?

FreshJulius

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I always thought hearing loss usually occurred in the inner ear, in which case this won't aid things any.

@Sticks Calhoun, @JWhitney: That's one of the problems with bone-conducting head/microphones, reduced bandwidth. The high frequencies get damped out. The lack of sound isolation means you have no chance of getting quality sound out of it anyway (unless you're already in a very quiet room).

It's too bad they didn't add a microphone into these. You could look like a real nutjob, talking to yourself with these things pressed to the sides of your head. :)

wagnerrp

Hummm... dunno but they look for me like they were made with white cheap-plastic, and that Audio Bone text makes it more alike to a cheap crappy headphones.

Mannyatic

I have tinnitus and can't use ANY type of headphone, so I'd buy these in a minute it they wouldn't trigger it (I spent thousands for "retraining" therapy so my mind doesn't hear the buzzing.

That being said, another ear conducting device was still a problem - and it felt like my ears were getting little electric shocks.

Whatever you do, do NOT just turn up the volume - tinnitus is horrible - and not being able to every use headphones is awful - less awful than hearing loss, but awful none-the-less.

Ikat

@wagnerrp: There are MANY types of hearing loss, occurring in: eardrum, inner ear bone conduction, sensorineural loss in the cochlea, etc.

brutek