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Yes, you read that right, Dyson is going to release a set of headphones with a built-in air purification system. While it may look wild, it’s not entirely unexpected after Razer made headlines last year with their RGB facemask, the Zephyr. Their marketing material is insane, have a look below.
Dyson, known for its high-end vacuum cleaners has now joined the world of face mask-adjacent tech. The Dyson Zone seeks to create an area of clean air directly in front of the user’s mouth. This may seem silly, mostly because it is, however industrial areas such as mainland China have an ever-growing problem with air pollution, so there’s certainly a potential market out there.
Dyson Zone Specs
Of course, we’re a tech site, so we need to know how the Dyson Zone headphones work. Let’s take a closer look at what’s going on inside. First up is the titular air-purification system, Dyson claim it’s a 2-stage system able to filter out fumes and other undesirable pollutants. This newly-purified air is channeled directly to the user’s mouth and nose via a contact-free visor. The visor attaches to the ear cups and floats in front of the face, preventing fatigue even with long sessions of use.
Dyson has also taken their first steps into the world of audio technology, with active noise-cancellation and high-fidelity sound. Now you can cancel out pollution and noise with just one product. Game-changing.
No release date has been specified yet, but you can sign up over at Dyson’s website to receive updates so you know when you can pre-order this ridiculous new technology.
The rest of the headphones are a relatively normal-looking headset design, with ANC peppering the offering through the use of bose passive and active options, deployed with microphones in the headset, similarly to Sony or Bose noise-cancelling headsets. It’s also outfitted with a USB-C port for any of your charging needs, and can also be hooked up to the Dyson Link application, which allows you to view air quality. The jury is still out if you’ll be able to adjust levels on it, however.
The ANC technology will allow you to filter out almost anything, as you’d expect, and can actually be adjusted using the visor. Lowering it shifts the headphones into ‘conversation’ mode, which disables the ANC and allows you to chat with whomever you might be speaking to, and there’s an additional transparency mode so you’ll be able to hear passive noise from the outside world.
Honestly, it’s a pretty standard set of features on the headset, and nothing too mindblowing in comparison to the air-filtration visor. However, of note is that the design is fitted with air compressors, which suck in the air on the headset itself, this could pose an issue for comfort as you wear the headphones (and visor) in, and could also make the headset noticeably heavy, to boot.
Dyson Zone potential release date
The release date of the Dyson Zone is still to be determined, meaning that you’re going to have to wait a little bit longer, though we’d expect that the headset will land some time by the end of 2022, as we’re pretty sure that they wouldn’t want to unveil a product and not speak of it again for a couple of years. This might be frustrating to some as a cool piece of ‘future tech’, but supply chain issues and the global semiconductor shortage have strained supply chains in a way that doesn’t really allow companies, both large and small to stick to hard release dates, as we’ve seen with the recently released RTX 3090 Ti from giant Nvidia. Therefore, we’re not too sure when it’ll be released quite yet.
