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At CES this year Panasonic will be showing off bone conducting headphones that beam music to your ears through your body. The Panasonic RP-BTGS10 doesn’t go inside your ear or over the ear but outside your ear. The headphone pumps sound with vibrations that move through the bone into the auditory nerve. That means you can listen to music while still listening to everything else in the world.
The headphones also have a bone conducting microphone too, which lets you talk on the phone through vibrations. Simple and effective — perfect for cyclists and pedestrians attempting to not get squished crossing the road alike.
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I’m guessing like previous bone conducting products that this clips over your jaw. Assuming that’s the case, how much of an impact would a beard have on it’s performance? Not something that’s occurred to me before, but nowadays I’ve got me a mighty ole beard.
Never seen any jaw versions, but I had a set of swimming bone conducting goggles, and these above (apart from the headband) gives the same location impression. They’ll more than likely press against the main bone slightly behind and below the ear. (The mastoid bone)
One thing that lacks on bone conduction is bass (or did do with the SwiMP3 that I used)
I’m asking this being someone who doesn’t know what ‘deaf’ actually is (or specifically how these earphones work), but does anyone know how this would affect people with partial or no hearing?
If they were partially deaf, they would partially hear.
If they were deaf, they wouldn’t hear anything.
Lol good answer cheers
Furthermore, these work by effectively resonating/vibrating through your skull/mastoid bones, for your hearing bones to pick up.
Depends on the reason for the hearing loss, there are lots of different causes from biological to mechanical. But most people that would be able to hear with things like this would already have similar technology. Bone conducting hearing aids are something that are sometimes used in hospitals with people with certain kinds of hearing loss or after having some kinds of restorative surgery for hearing loss.
Best would be to ask a doctor if they would work or have an advantage over normal headphones.
Yup, though to be fair, you’d find that out with the hearing tests they do, as they’ll perform several tests with both normal headphones and a bone conducting one, and also a mixture of both with white noise.
Ah, cheers to you and wildgeeza. I only asked wondering if there was an implication for things like hearing aids, but like you mentioned, bone conducting hearing aids already exist.
Alas, yet again someone with the ability to time-travel stole my idea and ripped me off.