When you put on your headphones, are you creating a bubble of privacy, or do you want to be aware of the world around you? When you look at the JBL-E55BT headphones, that's the question you'll have to ask yourself. JBL sent us a pair of their latest Bluetooth-powered headphones to check out, and we spent hours and hours listening to them to see if they were worth the $150 asking price...
Apple jumped into the wireless headphone market last year with the introduction of the AirPods. The AirPods are a really cool product that works great with Apple products, but they have been very hard to come by since their release. Luckily for you, you don’t have to worry about hunting a pair down because we’re teaming up with our friends at Is In Stock to give away a pair of AirPods...
A woman has suffered burns to her face, hands and neck after her battery-powered headphones blew up during a recent flight from Beijing to Melbourne, reveals the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The explosion occurred two hours after take-off, when the unnamed woman was woken up by a loud bang after the battery, which melted and later stuck to the floor of the plane, in her...
Jaybird has a reputation for making some of the best Bluetooth earbuds on the market. The company's first generation Jaybird Bluebuds X built up its reputation and its successor, the X2, was an upgrade that made for near-perfect headphones. Now, a few years later, Jaybird is back with the X3. There have been rumblings about these headphones for a while, but they were delayed as Jaybird...
Apple and (Product) Red go back a long way. From iPods to iPhone cases, Apple has made it a regular habit of including a (Product) Red color option for most of its devices, and it is continuing the tradition with some of its Beats products. The Beast Solo3 wireless headphones and Pill+ Bluetooth speaker will soon be available in what Apple is calling Citrus Red color option. It’s more...
JayBird announced the highly-anticipated successor to its JayBird X2 headphones on Thursday. The JayBird X3 Bluetooth headphones are available now and, even better, they cost less than the debut price of the JayBird X2. They’re pretty awesome. I’ve been using the JayBird X3 headphones for about a week now. JayBird creates headphones for active folks, the type...
Truly wireless earbuds are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Apple, Samsung and countless smaller companies are selling them now (or soon, in Apple’s case), but there’s still plenty of room left to improve. With that in mind here are two fresh takes on the technology currently making the rounds on Kickstarter. Phantom Air bills itself as the world’s first tunable wireless earbuds...
Erato already makes a great pair of truly pairs of wireless earbuds with Apollo 7, but the company’s learned a lot since its first product launched on Kickstarter earlier this year. Now it’s back with two new models offering longer battery life, better fitting designs, and cheaper prices just in time for the headphone jack-less iPhone 7. The company’s new Muse 5 and Rio 3 earbuds...
Apple’s rumored AirPods are finally official. With the headphone jack going away, Apple said it was taking on the challenge to create headphones that are truly meant for the wireless world. They essentially look like Apple’s existing EarPods without the cables, which is to say they look… weird. When worn, they look more like those wireless earpieces lawyers might use to talk on the...
Focal might not be a household name in the audio market like Beats, Bose or JBL, but this French firm offers some of the best speakers and headphones around. The company made its mark with the Grand Utopia EM, a $220,000 pair of Hi-Fi speakers considered to be one of the greatest on the market. Now Focal is applying that same ingenuity to personal audio with the $3,999 Focal Utopia hi-...