British technology company Dyson is set to release the Dyson Zone this fall – after spending six years on researching and lots of prototypes. Dyson Zone is a set of headphones with a removable visor designed to be used to filter air pollution and reduce unwanted noise.
Dyson that is best known for its high-end vacuum cleaners said Dyson Zone will be the first wearable technology product created by the company. The headphones incorporate active noise cancellation to block out urban noise pollution – while a removable plastic visor wraps around the front of the face to filter out allergens, gases and dust.
Dyson Zone: Air vacuum for mouth
Dyson Zone is not only a headphone, it simultaneously deliver immersive sound to the ears and purified airflow to the nose and mouth. The company hasn’t announced the price yet – but it will definitely cost more than your typical premium noise-canceling headphone like Sony or Apple’s AirPods Max headphones.
How it works?
The visor has four air purification modes – low, medium, high and auto. Theair purification mask uses the same air compression technology found in Dyson’s home air purifiers. A compressor in each earcup of the headphone sucks in fresh air by spinning then the air passes through double-layered filters made with a potassium-enriched carbon layer, which traps city gas pollutants.
Clean air then exits through the other side of the mesh filter and is projected in a stream along the inner sides of the visor down the wearer’s mouth and nose – creating a “bubble” of clean air from which to breathe.
“Precision-engineered compressors within the earcups draw air through the dual-layer filters, intelligently designed to fit within the considerable space constraints of a headphone,” the brand explained.
“The negatively charged electrostatic filter media captures ultrafine particles such as allergens and particles from sources such as brake dust, industry combustion and construction whilst a potassium-enriched carbon layer captures city gas pollutants
like nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide.”
To ensure the air is kept close to the wearer and doesn’t escape or become diluted by external air before reaching the nose or mouth, the company moulded the visor into a shape that optimises airflow.
According to Dyson, the air-filtration component is a non-contact system – which means it doesn’t touch your face like a mask. But, rather sits just in front of it.
Meanwhile, for the headphones component, it have three listening modes – isolation, conversation and transparency which have all been developed with an advanced noise-cancellation system. This reduces unwanted environmental noise and motor tones to provide advanced noise cancellation at home, at work and on the go.
Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones key features
- Radical new format for delivering purified air and high-fidelity audio on-the-go
- Electrostatic filtration captures 99% of particle pollution as small as 0.1 micron, such as dust, pollen and bacteria
- Potassium-enriched carbon filter captures city gasses like NO2, SO2 and O3
- Contact-free air delivery visor channels two streams of purified air to the nose and mouth, engineered specifically for usage outdoors and in crosswinds
- The smallest in any Dyson machine to date, two motors sit in each ear cup and are the “beating heart” of the Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones
- Advanced ANC and a high performing neodymium electroacoustic system deliver rich, immersive audio that faithfully replicates audio as the artist or creator intended
- 15 undergraduate students from the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology worked on the Dyson Zone project, supporting disciplines as diverse as acoustics development, electronics and airflow systems.
- 3 ANC modes: Isolation, Conversation and Transparency
- Isolation mode: Highest level of active noise cancellation
- Conversation mode: Activates when you dip the visor –- automatically turns off the purification to conserve battery power and amplifies conversation
For more information regarding Dyson Zone Air-Purifying Headphones, you can visit Dyson official website.
