Brain-scanning headphones play music to suit your mood

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By Cormack O'Connor in Tech on Monday 22 April 2013

You know those days when you’re sitting on the train after a hard day at work, literally unable to pull your phone from your pocket to change the song you’re listening to? Those days are over. Well, sort of. Japanese company Neurowear have developed a set of headphones and an iPhone application which combine to [...]

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Logitech’s UE 4000 Headphones: Economic, compact and durable

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Products on Friday 21 December 2012

Logitech’s UE 4000 Headphones are a cheap, compact and durable alternative to generic in-ear buds. When I compared the two, the UE 4000′s won out with a fuller sound and provided me with a far more comfortable experience; they are beautifully padded.

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Logitech’s UE 9000 Headphones: Perfect sound on the go

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By Cormack O'Connor in Tech on Monday 17 December 2012

Logitech have just released an amazing new range of audio solutions called Ultimate Ears, and with that line comes their show stopping headphones: the Logitech UE 9000.

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The Socialite headphones

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By Casper Johansson in New Products on Saturday 13 March 2010

Owning clusters of diamonds and a miniature dog named Tinkerbell sounds appealing, but one’s unaffordable and the other will do its business inside your vintage handbag. The Socialite is house-trained, stylish and custom-designed to block out the sounds of chasing paparazzi and teen boy band members.

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The Smarty Headphones

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By Casper Johansson in New Products on Saturday 27 February 2010

What’s smarter: strawberries that help you see in the dark, bananas that make your brain grow, blueberries that transport you to outer space, or cherries that make you fly? Choose your own adventure with these Smarty Headphones from Muse, which come in four fun colours and use noise isolation technology to dramatically reduce ambient noise, so all you hear is your music.

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M11X’s vinyl stereo chairs

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By Casper Johansson in New Products on Wednesday 24 June 2009

These stylish works by New York-based artist, M11X — aka Mikal Hameed — blend his musical history with his creative nature as he ‘calls on us to forget our indivualized nature and relationship with our headphones and demands that we start to share our music as it was meant to be: unplugged and free’. [photos by Alison Zavos]

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Halo headphones

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By Francis Andrews in New Products on Tuesday 19 May 2009

Interestingly, the idea for these headphones was inspired by the theory that dementia could be treated by music therapy. Designer Kirsten Black, whose grandma lived in a nursing home, said: ‘Nan had dementia and because music is recognised by a part of the brain that is so primal, it could give her a sense of [...]

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QuietPoint active noise-cancelling headphones

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By Ari Stein in New Products on Thursday 29 May 2008

These small but innovative in-ear headphones from Audio-Technica are part of a new wave of noise canceling buds that claim to block up to 85 to 90 percent of outside sound.

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