Take a deep breath, Dyson’s first pair of noise-canceling, air-purifying headphones will go on sale in the UK in March, starting at £749.
The Dyson Zone was first unveiled earlier this year as the UK-founded company unique in combating noise and air pollution in urban areas around the world.
The headphones come with active noise cancellation to cut down on noise around the wearer, and a detachable visor that pumps out filtered air.
The mask sits over the wearer’s nose and mouth and pumps out filtered air to help reduce exposure to air pollution.
The Dyson Zone was first unveiled earlier this year as the UK-founded company unique in combating noise and air pollution in urban areas around the world.
The headphones come with active noise cancellation to cut down on noise around the wearer, and a detachable visor that pumps out filtered air
It can also be lowered to expose the wearer’s moth when speaking, or detached completely when not in use.
The Zone headphones will initially launch in China in January, before coming to the UK, Ireland, US, Hong Kong and Singapore in March.
The headphones respond to data showing that one in five people in the European Union is affected by noise pollution and that 99% of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed WHO safe pollution levels.
The Dyson Zone’s filtration system can capture 99 percent of particles as small as 0.1 microns, including pollen, dust, and bacteria, as well as viruses.
The layer of potassium-enriched carbon, also found in the earcups, captures city gas pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
Compressors then shoot two streams of fresh air into the wearer’s nose and mouth through the visor, which does not touch the face like traditional face masks.
However, the filters in the earcups must be replaced every 12 months to keep the air filtration system working.
A notification from the MyDyson app, which connects to the headphones, will notify the user when a replacement is necessary, and they can be changed at home.
Users will also be able to adjust airflow speed and sound modes, as well as keep track of the different levels of air quality they encounter, using the MyDyson app.
Unlike face masks, they provide a column of fresh air without touching the face, using high-profile filters and two small air pumps.
In tests, Dyson engineers used a breathing manikin equipped with medical-grade mechanical lungs and sensor equipment, to breathe in pollution that replicated human breathing patterns.
Dyson says the headphones offer up to 50 hours of audio-only battery life, or about four hours of audio and air-purifying playback time.
Data from eight microphones that monitor ambient noise enable them to do this Reduce city sounds by 38 decibels.
They can also play audio in a frequency range of 6Hz to 21kHz.
The headphones can be charged using a USB-C cable, and can go from zero to 100 percent battery in three hours.
Dyson said the device takes inspiration from the “shape and design of a horse’s saddle,” by distributing weight on the sides of the head, rather than on top.
The company says, “The saddle typically curves over the horse’s spine and distributes the load through contact with the left and right regions of the spine—a coordination used for the center pad on the headband.”
When the Dyson Zone headphones were first unveiled earlier this year, the company’s chief engineer, Jake Dyson, said: ‘The Dyson Zone purifies the air you breathe while you’re on the go.
Unlike face masks, they provide a column of fresh air without touching your face, using high-performance filters and two small air pumps.
The British company said developing a non-contact solution was essential for its engineers, to avoid the discomfort and irritation often associated with face-contact masks.
Their headphones are the result of six years of development and over 500 prototypes.
It was originally a “snorkel-like” clean air nozzle piece coupled with a backpack to carry the engine and internal workings.
In tests, Dyson engineers used a breathing manikin equipped with medical-grade mechanical lungs and sensor equipment, to breathe in pollution that replicated human breathing patterns.
They then measured the level of contamination inside each dwarf’s nose and throat to determine how well the headphones filtered out this type of particulate matter.
The Dyson Zone filter system can capture 99 percent of particles as small as 0.1 microns, including pollen, dust and bacteria, as well as viruses
Dyson says the headphones offer up to 50 hours of audio battery life, or about four hours of audio playback time and air purification combined.
Dyson warns that the world’s urban population continues to grow, resulting in poor quality air to breathe once we step outside our homes.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nine out of 10 people globally breathe air that exceeds its guidelines for pollutant limits.
In January 2022, people living in London were advised not to exercise outdoors due to high levels of pollution.
Also, around 100 million people in Europe are also said to have long-term exposure to noise above the recommended level.
It is estimated that more than 100 million people, about 20 percent of Europe’s population, are exposed to long-term noise above WHO guidelines.
