Dyson’s new $949 Zone headphones look like something out of a dystopian nightmare, or a cool cyberpunk statement, or both. But that also misses the point.
Are Dyson's air purifying headphones awful, or cool in a cyberpunk sort of way? #shorts
When I asked an audiophile nerd friend who he thought these air-purifying headphones were for, he said they were for Bane from Batman: The Dark Knight Rises “when he gets a job at a call center.” And he might be right.
“These headphones are clearly aimed at people who live in heavily polluted areas,” Troy Portillo, a musician and online learning expert, told Lifewire via email. “However, there are often correlations between poverty and areas with high pollution levels, so there is a clear disconnect with these headphones that cost almost a thousand dollars.”
The Zone air purifying headphones have a removable air purifying mask and noise cancellation to block out city noise. And that’s the gimmick. While we currently associate filter masks with viruses, they are also used to combat pollution.
