Ludbeat crowdfunding: the first completely safe and wireless bone-conduction headphones – how it works?
Ludbeat has launched the production of its bone conduction wireless headphones and continued its campaign on Indiegogo.
Have you ever had the problem that you can’t exercise with your headphones on because they fall out? Can’t ride a bike or drive a car with your headphones on because you can’t hear anything but them? Do you want to listen to music and at the same time not miss the news from your colleagues in the office? What about listening to your favorite book but hearing children or pets in the next room? How about going to the pool with your favorite music playing?
Ludbeat engineers have invented headphones that solve these problems. Ludbeat are wireless headphones that don’t plug into, nor cover your ears. Instead, they use bone conduction to transmit the sound directly into your head leaving your ears free to monitor what’s going on around you. The special water-resistant technology makes it possible to swim with them. They also help people with hearing problems to use them because of their bone conduction capability.
Well, how do they work?
Bone conduction is the conduction of sound to the inner ear primarily through the bones of the skull, allowing the hearer to perceive audio content without blocking the ear canal. Bone conduction transmission occurs constantly as sound waves vibrate bone, specifically the bones in the skull, although it is hard for the average individual to distinguish sound being conveyed through the bone as opposed to the sound being conveyed through the air via the ear canal.
The catch is that you have to stick an adhesive patch in front of your ear. The patch contains a magnet that the headphones stick to. The patches can reportedly be worn in the shower and last for four days and each pair of Ludbeat comes with 365 pairs. The earpieces do not bother you in any way, and you can walk around with them all day as the battery will hold up to 20 hours of charge.
Ludbeat previously raised $100,000 on Kickstarter with a prototype of the headphones and continued the campaign on Indiegogo now, as they have launched production. So now you have a chance to get the Ludbeat for $135.00 instead of $190.00