This is an innovation that might well change the way we listen to sound. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Israeli start-up New features a soundbar-like device that plays music to your ears … but without the need to place headphones on your head or earphones. However, you are still the only one to hear the sound emitted!
The French creator of this technology, Christophe Ramstein, introduced the Parisian to the operation of his astonishing device. “It looks like a speaker, but it’s not a speaker. It will project two sound pockets next to your ears. These sleeves then emit an audible sound. Finally, a 3D module is in charge at every moment of capturing the position of your ears: you can move your head in all directions, the sound will follow.
Damien Licata Caruso, special correspondent of the “Parisian” at CES in Las Vegas and high-tech specialist, underlines the performance of the device. “It works quite well, he concedes, we have a fairly directional sound, I can only follow what I want to hear. The people next to me won’t hear it ”
What applications can we imagine for this device in everyday life? Everything you can already do with headphones, but in a more practical way: rowing in the gym, in the car without disturbing others, in the office by videoconference, at home to play video games in peace …
