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Water-Proof Bone Conduction Headphones

EZ-80WP_1.jpgWe've seen those crazy bone conduction headphones in the past and now they just keep getting weirder. These headphones—named the Vibone EZ-80WP—work a little like shaking baby syndrome, for adults, underwater. Bone-conduction headphones use your skull to send musical vibrations to your brain. That sounds fine and dandy on dry land, but would it still work as well underwater?

Product Page [Via Akihabara]

11:04 AM on Thu Jun 29 2006
By Travis Hudson
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  • This one was too easy guys, BONE conducting get it BONE ............... Seriously this looks pretty interesting, I would have like them in ear bud form factor but oh well.

  • I think this will lead to a new condition: osteotinnitus.

  • FWIW, these don't work by sending signals directly to the brain. The vibrations move through your skull, yes, but end up in your inner ear just like ordinary soundwaves, and are translated into neural impulses in the same way.

  • Neon Yellow and Grey? That's a winner of a color combo right there.

  • Quick Question - Does that massive jack keep my iPod dry, or do i still need to buy that crazy waterproof case?

  • You very much still need a waterproof case, and it may matter how the jack is designed...it may not work with every case. I have a waterproof case that came with some pretty unacceptable headphones...I'd love to see if this headset will work with that case.

  • Someone should sell a little iPod frigate that floats along ontop of the pool with the earphone cord dangling down to you. I'm sure people would buy it.

  • Ahhh, bone-conduction headphones. Now I can wear my OSHA-required earplugs at work and still listen to my Indn music all without going deaf from having to turn up the volume so I can hear over the racket of the workplace. Actually, mitakuyapi (my relatives), tain't a joke. I really do work where it's incredibly noisy; I am required to wear earplugs in order to save my hearing (& whatever I still have of my sanity); & with these, I can actually listen to powwow songs (MY kind of music) instead of the sound of the gears in my head grinding, or 8 - 10 hrs of CW or 'other'. Now how much are these & where do I get 'em?

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