Pick up your bone conduction headphones and start looking like a dork today

If you see someone on the street wearing headphones in front of the ears but not over the ears, that person is probably not crazy but probably the smartest dude around here, because he’s using Thanko’s Vonia bone conduction headphones. Instead of pumping sound into your ear canal, it relies on the part of temporal bone in front of your ears to conduct the vibration (sound), it is hard to explain how it feels but you can ask your doctor to perform a Rinne’s on you to get the hang of it. Bone conduction is the best when you are list music in loud places, the volume doesn’t have to go up to hurt your ears either. Enough of messing around at science museum, Thanko is already selling these headphones for 86USD in Japan. More product shots after the jump. —Sam Chan

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