Check-In CES: Haptic Headphones

Health technology meets entertainment at Able Planet, a company known equally for hearing aids and consumer audio. Their new Linx Fusion line of headphones takes the best elements of both to create a new multi-sensory device which transmits sound simultaneously through skin, ear, and bone. The haptic element of these headphones – often referred to as “bone conduction” – transmits sound directly into the skull, circumventing the ear itself and directly stimulating the brain. Most significantly, this technology gives these headphones the potential to let hearing impaired people hear again.