New Dyson Purifying Headphones in 2022!

Dyson's New Air Purifying Headphones

From Dyson's Youtube video:

When you're at home, you're in a protected space.

As soon as you go out of your house, you're faced with all these different pollutants.

Dust, gases, VOCs, pollen.

Noise pollution is also a really big issue.

Noise of jets, of construction sites.

How do you protect someone when they are commuting to work or going out?

The idea of this machine was to overcome that problem.

Clean air, quality sound on the move.

Air purification inside a set of headphones.

We've got two compressors that sit in the ear cups.

These compressors spin, which draws in air.

This filter removes particulate and gases from the air.

That purified air passes down through our visor at the front here.

The clean air is travelling round and then exits through this mesh.

And that provides the user with a zone, a bubble of clean air, from which to breathe.

There's a great mix of things that Dyson have already tackled,

filtration, acoustics and airflow.

It's just about putting them in a smaller package that is wearable.

It's been a real journey of pushing the limits of what is possible.

Over five years of development, engineers' time and relentless testing,

including hundreds of prototypes.

We're really trying to drive the development into something that we're really proud of.

A really excellent machine.

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soon you can have a dyson air filter for

your face that also plays music breathe

in and jam out the dyson zone air

purifying headphones are real and coming

this year let's go over how it works

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so dyson has made a whole new kind of

wearable one that delivers pure air to

your nose and mouth and it delivers pure

sound with noise cancelling high

high-fidelity over-ear headphones

and it also would look awesome for your

mortal kombat or bane cosplay just a fun

bonus feature if you're into that okay

it's because we are not used to this

idea of wearing portable air purifiers

but

this is a product that dyson is serious

about the company has been working on

this for six years more than 500

prototypes have been designed to get it

right there's even a patent application

from back in 2018 so take a second and

just process this you have dyson a

massive company that is looking at how

pollution and air quality are becoming a

growing problem and their team said yeah

we're going to invest years and years of

labor in making this product because

people will want to pay for a way to

breathe better outside

so yeah that's not the bright future we

like to think about because we'll need

breathing technology now

i'll just try to cheer you up by telling

you about all the cool tech inside

dyson has been in the air filter game

for a while now filtering both gases and

particles from the air now the

engineering challenge was how to get

this same filtration tech in a smaller

form the compressors are in the ear cups

the air goes in through filters on the

ear cups and then with the visor it's

projecting two streams of clean air to

the nose and mouth they had a lot of

different ideas on how to get that

stream of air to your face some

prototypes are shown with snorkel

looking attachments but this visor

doesn't touch your face at all it snaps

to the headphones with magnets it just

kind of hovers in front of your nose and

mouth and you can adjust the size to fit

your face and you can just listen to

music without the visor on but you need

the visor to get the air filtration

there are three different air speeds for

the filter and what i think is neat is

that there's this auto mode so if you're

just walking around it's in a low

setting but if you start running

upstairs it's going to kick up to blow

the air harder

now this was tested in crosswinds so if

it's a breezy day it shouldn't be a

problem and i'm told by dyson that you

can take a phone call while the air

filtration is on so

it's not gonna be noisy enough that it

messes with the phone microphone but

let's say you're walking around town

wearing it you're looking like a bionic

future hero and you want to stop in a

cafe and order a coffee i'm told all you

have to do is pull down the visor toward

the chin and when it lowers the

filtration and the music will

automatically pause so you can have a

conversation with other humans

and then go back to your bionic world

something like that we should go over

the headphones as well now the company

put a lot of engineering into the fit of

the headphones they say it distributes

the weight over the sides of the head

instead of right at the top the padding

over the ear creates a natural seal it's

already going to block sound out that

way but it has active noise canceling

technology which means it's working to

cancel out the sound wavelengths around

you and there are three modes isolation

mode is on the high end it's cancelling

out the outside sound conversation mode

happens when you lower that visor and

you need to chat with someone it'll

amplify the conversation so it's not

sounding muffled with headphones on and

then there's transparency mode and

that's for when you want to hear some

background sound around you now this

product is targeted around solving

pollution problems and the need for

clean air but of course

we're all thinking about the covid

the visor itself is not a mask so in the

box dyson is including a cloth mask

insert it's been explained to me that

this touches your cheeks it goes over

your nose and it fits right into the

visor for when you need to wear

something that covers you more now the

filtration technology dyson is using is

called electrostatic filtration dyson

says it captures 99

of particle pollution and that includes

dust pollen bacteria and some viruses

anything that is as small as 0.1

microns and well the kovid virus is just

about that size at .125 microns this is

not a medical device it's not designed

for this i mean dyson can't claim it's

going to suck away all the covert for

you of course

but clearly there are some elements of

this that can align well with the

possibility that you'll need to wear a

mask a face covering in the future

because of covet and you might want some

fresh air at the same time i know i was

thinking about it now you may not be

used to seeing folks wearing air

purifying masks around town while

commuting to work to combat smoke and

dust but this could be more common soon

a few companies have been releasing

different masking solutions for the past

few years back in early 2020 there was

the eo air it unveiled at ces it was

touted as something helpful for those

working in wildfire cleanup and there's

also the razer zephyr this is another

product we've seen recently at ces it

forms a seal around the nose and the

mouth and has replaceable air filters

and a transparent design to see the

mouth when someone's talking and there's

the super mask it combines a helper fan

filtration with attachable noise

canceling earbuds that one sells for

about 300

we don't know yet how much the dyson

zone is going to cost all we know is

that it'll be coming out sometime later

in the year in the fall and we will be

sure to tell you all about it when we

can try it on ourselves in the meantime

let me know all the questions you have

about this and if you think it's

something that you'll see in your future

until then

breathe easy my friends

En gadget

Dyson just unveiled its first wearable

product and

it's not what you think it is

the device is called the Dyson zone and

it's a set of noise canceling air

purifying headphones

it comes with a detachable visor for the

bottom half of the wearer's face that

looks to put it mildly

odd

that visor actually blows filtered air

to your nose mouth and chin sort of like

a portable fan dedicated to the lower

portion of your face Dyson integrated a

smaller version of its air filtration

system into the ear cups and the idea is

that people can protect themselves from

pollution while out and about

the zone might seem like a response to

the pandemic but Dyson says this device

has actually been six years in the

making it's not born so much from a

desire to keep out covet 19 germs per se

but more as a way for people to breathe

less polluted air wherever they go the

zone is not only a wearable air

filtration system but it's also the

company's first audio product in fact

dyson describes it as headphones

delivering pure air and pure sound if

you're thinking this thing looks absurd

you're not alone my first reaction to

seeing this thing was complete and utter

amusement so when dyson offered to show

me the contraption in person i just knew

i had to see and try this thing out for

myself

sadly though the company didn't allow us

to take any photos or videos so i'll do

my best to describe the experience my

biggest takeaway after spending some

time with a prototype is that yes it

looks just as ridiculous in real life

and yet

despite its looks god i still want one

tyson said it engineered the headset to

fit comfortably and distribute weight

evenly by drawing inspiration from horse

saddles there are three cushions on the

headband and the central one is slightly

curved like a saddle to distribute the

load through contact areas when i put on

the zone and adjusted his arms to fit my

head the whole thing felt balanced and

it didn't feel heavy the ear cups

themselves were spongy and soft and once

they had clamped on there was an

immediately noticeable muffling effect

that's because the demo unit had already

been set to one of the three anc modes

available isolation conversation and

transparency the highlight of my time

with the zone though has got to be when

they snap that magnetic visor on once

the mask was connected the motors and

the ear cups were to life and a gentle

clean smelling trickle of air started

blowing at my lips and nose

it was surprisingly comfortable and for

an obsessive clean freak like me it felt

borderline magical

this could not only be the personal air

bubble i've dreamed of but also might be

a portable air conditioner for the lower

half of my face which would be a

blessing in the summer the visor was

also designed to defuse two jets of

airflow and at no point during my time

with the dyson zone did i feel like i

was being overwhelmed or pummeled by

wind

the ear cups compressors draw air

through dual layer filters including

negatively charged electrostatic filters

to catch particles like allergens and

dust a potassium-enriched carbon layer

captures gas pollutants like nitrogen

dioxide sulfur dioxide and ozone earlier

versions of the zone took the form of a

snorkel-like mouthpiece connected to a

backpack like oxygen tanks in a scuba

diving setup 500 prototypes later the

company settled on the headset and visor

combination and the mouthpiece can

deliver clean air without touching the

wearer's face the company also made a

companion app that would show the air

quality of the region you're in although

at the time of the meeting it didn't

show data that was more location

specific than the city you're in you

couldn't for instance see if your place

of work had more polluted air than the

park you walked to for lunch for example

the company hasn't shared pricing and

availability information for the zone

just yet other than to say it's coming

this year i can already see this being a

great device to wear for my future

travels whether it be on an airplane or

in a commuter train and at the demo i

even went to lay down on a couch with

the zone on just to see how comfortable

it would be to wear this on say a

red-eye flight it felt surprisingly

comfortable for the admittedly brief

period of time i was laying down but of

course there are still things i'd need

to know before spending money on the

zone like battery life and real world

performance

hopefully dyson will share more

information on those things soon