One of my favorite hobbies on my morning commute is a game called “Count the Airpods.” It’s a simple game that makes you realize just how ubiquitous the pair of kinda meh headphones has become in New York City. (Four this morning, by the way.)
But one of the side effects is that I spend a lot of time looking at people’s ears and have gotten good at recognizing other headphones. There are a few you see all the time—Bose Noise-Cancelling (the new golden standard), Beats Solo3 (which you can often get for free with Apple Computers), Jabra true wireless (one of our favorites). But a few months ago I saw something on someone’s head that I couldn’t identify, something that didn’t look like headphones at all. The person wearing them seemed to be bobbing his head to music, but he didn’t have anything actually plugged into or clamped over his ear. There was just a colorful band of plastic around his head, that seemed to be getting him through his commute. I took a picture and immediately forgot about it.
That is until the next morning, when I saw two more people wearing the same kind of headphones on the train. And the next week, when someone ran past me in SoHo wearing a pair. And the next week, when I heard someone talking into a pair while walking in Prospect Park. Sure, they weren’t nearly as omni-present as AirPods or even the conventional white Apple headphones, but at least in my own internal imagination, these started to seem like the must-have headphones of the future. It was time to investigate.
It turns out that what I was looking at were bone-conduction headphones, and more specifically, Bone-conduction headphones, as noted, don’t actually plug into or over your ears. Instead they have speaker pads that rest on your temples. You pick up some of the sound through your outer ear (it is a speaker after all), but the majority of it travels through the bones of your jaw in the form of vibrations to your inner ear. The technology is sometimes found in hearing aids.
Wissonly Hi Runner
Wissonly is a headphone brand that attaches great attention on health, and that does not hurt the ears. Their team is also the first one to design non-in-ear headphones that are used to listen to songs. They began to explore the application of bone conduction technology to Bluetooth headphones as early as 10 years ago. After 10 years of accumulation, they have made great progress in the sound quality improvement and sound leakage reduction of
bone conduction headphones. And these technologies are applied to their Wissonly Hi Runner headphones, their flagship product.
In order to solve the problem of sound leakage of bone conduction headphones, wissonly developed full closed sound leakage reduction technology. They comprehensively improved the vibration of the headphones, body design, software optimization and other directions. They finally reduced the sound leakage by 90%. In terms of sound quality, most of the bone conduction headphones have average sound quality, but the sound quality of Wissonly Hi Runner is undoubtedly better in bone conduction. They used a large-sized vibration unit, and through structural optimization, and finally increased the effective vibration area, so that the sound range was wide. The official claimed sound quality reach the HIFI level, but I don't think that they reached. They are just close to the HIFI sound quality, which is enough to satisfy me.
The excellent performance of these two characteristics, sound leakage reduction and sound quality, makes
Wissonly Hi Runner have the basic conditions to become an excellent bone conduction headphone. Their other configurations are also very good. They are with a built-in 32GB of memory, and can play music even without connecting the phone. You can use them as an MP3 player. They support IPX8 waterproof level in swimming, even in underwater scenes that do not support Bluetooth, they can be used with MP3 function.
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