Bone conduction stimulation represents a pivotal alternative to conventional air conduction in hearing aids, whereby sound is transmitted directly through vibrations of the skull. This mechanism ...

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A future iteration of AirPods could take advantage of bone conduction technology to provide audio in a variety of situations where normal earphones aren't effective, with a proposed system combining ...

Apple may be working on AirPods with better sound and better accessibility for people with hearing impairments. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple a patent for an "apparatus for ...

A patent filing, discovered by AppleInsider, shows that Apple has developed a hybrid "combined" audio system using bone conduction technology. In a patent granted today by the U.S. Patent and ...

Future AirPods might just use "bone conduction" to enhance the quality of music and other audios. How does bone conduction works? According to Apple Insider's latest report, the development of a ...

Future AirPods Max or other personal audio accessories could increase the privacy of sound, by using bone conduction to transmit calls or private audio to the user without being heard by anyone else.