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Wednesday January 9, 2008
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Yup, that's right: we now have photos of both me and my sister on Gearlog at the moment. I am modeling the stylish "Audio Bone," a product that really needs to have its name changed when it finally comes here from Japan. The Audio Bone is really weird - it's a pair of bone conduction headphones. You don't actually put them over your ears - you put them on your upper jawbone right in front of your ear, and they transmit music through your skull. Bone conduction typically hasn't delivered very good sound quality, but these headphones sounded pretty decent, though they felt quite odd - my whole head was vibrating!
Along with the basic Audio Bone, Japanese firm Goldendance had a waterproof model - the Audio Bone Aqua. That one is even more interesting, because bone conduction just might let you listen to music underwater where standard headphones don't work well.
The Audio Bone costs $120 and the Aqua costs $90, but Goldendance doesn't have a US distributor yet.
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January 10, 2008 7:45 PM
Does anyone know if these will work with people who are dear (or at least with certain kinds of deafness?).
Thanks.
January 10, 2008 9:57 PM
Back in the 1980s there was a device called "Bone Phone". It was a decent quality FM radio in that you wore over your shoulders. Conducted sound through your bones - sounds wierd, but it worked great. I wore one while riding my motorcycle. People standing nearby heard it (very softly), but drape it around your neck and the sound just "popped".
January 11, 2008 3:02 AM
I also had a Bone fone back in the 80's. I loved it for jogging. i could even use it mowing the lawn. Someone else had a swimmers bone conduction mp3 player about two years ago. It was pricey and only had 128mb memory, and included it's own swim goggles, but worked pretty well, but best if your head was below water.
January 11, 2008 8:59 AM
Bone phones sound like a great innvoation for those of us who have already lost some hearing and hesitate to use earphones for the further damage they do. sign me up!
January 11, 2008 12:54 PM
I feel they will be great for the deaf & hard of hearing! However for thw rest of us, too pricie for the fair sound quality, by far!
January 12, 2008 6:52 AM
I want one :) I stay in India :(
January 13, 2008 2:16 AM
PLEASE! SEND ME INFO ON THIS SET OF HEADPHONES,
AUDIO BONE, AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE OR WHERE I CAN
ORDER THEM FROM IN JAPAN.
THANKS,
BRE
January 25, 2008 12:34 AM
Bone conduction sound does work very well underwater. I have the SwimP3 player and its sound is phenomenal, plus the newer model has 256 MB. Leagues beyond any other underwater MP3 player around.
May 18, 2008 12:25 PM
can any one help me with advice and price of some of these things wife has phasia which means that her ears are very painfull when using normal earphones need uk prices please many thanks
July 17, 2008 6:57 PM
I belive these will work for folks that have hearing loss due to middle ear problems (like me). If your inner ear is still working, that's what bone conductivity is all about, and these will help. I just wish SOMEBODY WOULD TELL ME WHERE I CAN ORDER A SET?!!! (Loud enough for ya'?) TEAC HP-F100 appears to be an even better, more powerful, but uglier headset, but even the TEAC site only has a brichure and no way to order it. What's up and why is it taking so long to get to the American market?
July 25, 2008 3:18 PM
It's now July, is the Aqua Audio Bone available for retail anywhere? I'd like to buy one for my IPod.
August 14, 2008 11:16 PM
Audio Bone Headphones are now available in the U.S. Check out our website at www.AudioBoneHeadphones.com.
October 11, 2008 4:33 PM
Any one knows what is the diference between the Audio Bone and TEAC HP-F100. In what subjects one is better than other?
Thank you
October 20, 2008 11:35 PM
They would work great for people who have certain types of hearing loss. Some people (myself included) hear better through bone conduction than air conduction. Air conduction being via the ear canal. If you have sensory neural hearing loss, I'm guessing it wouldn't work much better than anything else. The problem there is not neurological not mechanical, so it really doesn't matter if you change the mechanics of the ear phones. I'm stoked about it though. I can hear low frequencies through my jaw that I can't hear if I just put the source up to my ear.
October 22, 2008 12:12 PM
I wish to know more about this Bone Conduction Ear Phones /Head Phones.
November 3, 2008 7:07 PM
they are now available from a public distirbuter if you go to www.audioboneheadphones.com
May 22, 2009 6:49 AM
I bought a brand new pair of Goldendance Audio Bone headphones on ebay for £20. I thought they would be ideal for my musician husband who is deaf in one ear.
IMHO these headphones are nowhere near as good soundwise, as standard over-ear headphones.
Also, they don't fit close enough to the bone, but if you manually push them harder against your head, then the sound is a little better.
If I had to score these out of 10, then its a disappointing 4 from me.
July 19, 2009 10:47 PM
What I want is some bone phones that I can wear that noone can see (like say they are tucked under my shirt collar, conducting through the collar bone) that way I can listen to music without people knowing it. It would make tuning people out a little easier. haha.