<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="496">8:16</a> I was totally expecting you to pull out a Dyson vacuum and have that blasting into the mic

vacuumphones

There is nothing dumber than a pair of headphones that will tell IT'S OWN USER that they aren't wearing the headphones.

When he put the fan through the mic you can bet i still played the missing parts of the song in my head.

These look like a Game Boy Colour accessory that dispensed nitrous oxide to kids in order to sedate them in stressful medical settings.

Cons: expensive, stupid app integration Pros: can't breathe carbon through your ears, cyberpunk ball gag is a nice touch

This thing feels like a hold over from the covid 19 era and they didn't get it to market fast enough.

Me at the start: ‘oh wow Dyson makes Headphones?’ Me at the end: ‘pfft guess not’

this might be only Dyson that can’t suck but still does💀

Now wade can clean his room and listen to music at the same time

As someone who lived in Beijing during the 1600aqi days, then moved to Chiang Mai just to chew on the 500aqi air, it's moderately funny to see people are paying a great deal of money just to breathe factory air.

Halfway through I sat wondering "Why didn't they just make a batter powered vacuum respirator instead of making them headphones that tell you 'no'"

The audio quality on the Dyson stick Guy was pretty impressive

Dyzone

I work at a JB Hi-Fi. the only pair of these that has left our store since it came out was a pair that was stolen off the display lmao

we're getting closer to o-hare bottled air

I heard that they don't really work as advertised because the mask part doesn't seal against your mouth and nose, it just constantly blows air into them, so it doesn't stop you from inhaling polution but it does dry out the inside of your mouth and nose, which makes them less effective at rejecting particles in the air

A while back I was diagnosing my mom's Dyson hairdryer, and it turns out that the thing wasn't working because there was, like, three hairs wrapped around the inside of the filter cage and it thought it was overheating. This just solidified how Dyson designs all of their stuff to be ridiculously over-engineered crap with guts that think they're smarter than you and the same parts as their cheap counterparts.

I find it dystopian to think that anyone would try and sell these expecting them to be an everyday item. These should only ever be expected to be a niche item meant for people in bad places, with health conditions or in dirty jobs, but the price kinda just ruins any thought of them being a professional or health item.

I appreciate that you still listened to the fan for 4 bars each time

'You merely adopted the dingus, I was born in it, molded by it.' -Dankpods, probably

From talking to a guy who works at Dyson, when I asked who these headphones were for, he said that they were aimed at the Asian market, where air quality is incredibly low due to the nature of their industry

Imagine going for a morning jog in Adelaide and seeing Wade wearing his VR while muffledly screaming through his Dysonphones.

Dyson is what Laius said to Oedipus when he was a baby.

Mmmm, dystopian-flavoured

I work at a JB Hi-Fi and we've had one of these on display for well over a year now; surprising noone, we're yet to sell a single set over in said store

For the whole Cyberpunk fit you have to wear both these headphones things and the Sony Glasstrons!

"the second stage for sonic 2" and shows footage of oil ocean from mania >~

NOTHING could've prepared me for that sound comparison

It was Mr. Pods who got me into hifi audio. Now I think I wanna invest breathing. Thank you Mr. Pod

He managed to resist making a "oi m8 these nuggets SUCK" joke, I'm shocked!

He got the Fallout Power Armor headphones!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="148">2:28</a> "Ah here we go, the second stage to Sonic 2" Shows Oil Ocean Zone, the fifth-to-last stage lol

Wade, important distinction: *SILICON,* like you said, is what are inside our electronics, as any sort of processor is made with it. It's a glass basically, and super rigid! *_SILICONE_* is the soft, rubbery stuff that a lot of things are made from or utilize, like that part on the breather!

James Dyson is a brilliant airflow engineer, has some amazing industrial designers on his team, his advertising is next-level - and is a total f-wit at everything else. These are stupid - just like his hand dryers. Sure - the air coming out of the outlets is clean, but that is not the problem. His devices use that clean, high velocity air to SPREAD germs and viruses in a MUCH wider area than if you used a mask or paper towel/ low velocity hand dryer. Oh - and don't get me started on the rechargeable batteries in his stick vacs - they die after about a year - my wife has gone through several of these highly expensive toys.

with these headphones people can breate in the soundwaves for true audiophile experience

Welcome to the future, today! Featuring headphones that filter air pollutants that are so smart, they can refuse to play music! What a time to be alive.

Those filter pads are tiny...I'd be amazed if you didn't have to change them once a week if you wore that thing for 8 hours every day.

In summary, if you're concerned about the purity of the air, you'd be better off purchasing a full room air purifier together with a pair of XM5 headphones.

holding the mic up to the fan during the comparison fucking sent me

Feels like a renaissance of when every brand had a go at making MP3 players. Except with wireless crap

i worked outside in wild fire season i can see how they would help because i put on a dusk mask on in wildfire season. but there's a point were nothing works and you have a blistering headache, plus not everyone in your crew will have this thing that cost a paycheck. so you'll probably have to shut down for health reasons anyways. and of course your managers that are 60+ and smoked 3 packs a day since high school doesn't know what everyone's complaining about.

Oh man, the passive aggression with the Dyson vs Huhduh’s…. I could eat this for brecky, lunch and din dins and still have room for more

The Dyson stick guy comparison to the hd6hundos was the best dankpods moment of the year

According to Z reviews and some other people, the air filter part is trash and the headphones are some of the best bluetooth headphones on the market lol. Oh, the duality lmfao

People may breathe in the soundwaves for a genuine audiophile experience with these headphones.

I was at work during that Optus outage, and had sent a necessary text like 5 minutes prior. Had to basically guess that nothing was wrong from there. Worse still was the emergency services being lost. Bravo Optus, bravo.

Aussie: Its a Vaccum Cleana for ya mouth mate.

They look like they have a Ball-Gag. 😳😵‍💫

One thing I genuinely appreciate about Dyson is that he's incredibly transparent with how he conducts engineering. He has photos of prototypes, how he got the idea, why he makes them, everything. As an engineer, it's a wonderful case study for any of his products, and if nothing else they are well engineered. Eccentric, but we'll engineered

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="148">2:28</a> "the second stage for sonic 2" *shows Oil Ocean Zone instead of Chemical Plant Zone, the Mania version no less*

It's so weird seeing Dyson making anything that isn't a cleaning machine or "windy things"

as soon as i heard "I'll just have to substitute these for the only other Dyson product I have" i broke out into the stupidest smile because i knew what was gonna happen next. incredible.

Remember before you die-son , plant some of them trees

can’t believe my dumbass put my ear to my phone’s speaker tryna hear the dyson purifier

I love how this man manages to pull of episode's like he hasn't used up all the idea's, Keep it up DankPod, your episode's through out these year's have been real amazing including the Lucky Nugget Dip.

I thought you were gonna pull out a Dyson vacuum when you were "comparing" the sound quality to the HD600 lol, so it would be this loud vacuum noise in the background 😂

if you want a respirator that doesn't swamp your sinuses and grow a moss beard on you, I'd really recommend the 3M ventilated welding helmets - they've got a small filter pack around your lower back, and pipe air into the helmet. There's no actual contact with your face (besides the headband which holds the helmet on), but no fumes reach you because of the positive pressure. You can also detach the tube and stick it down your pants or in your shirt for a short deodorize/dry. Actually a godsend for long days in the shop.

This is the kind of item someone finds in the apocalypse and use it as their defining trait.

I had this on in the background, and the change from the HD600s to the Dyson fan was the weirdest thing i've ever experienced. I think my brain might be a bit too used to the headphone comparisons now.....

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="121">2:01</a> I sure love it when the iOS weather app tells me "get inside somewhere, it's stinky out here" right at the top... That's only the very worst places in Hamburg on bad days though. It could be much worse.

Mate just keeps entertaining me with the best videos🤝🏻

I straight up saw an old man wearing these, with the air filter thing on his face and everything, in a shopping centre here in Melbourne the other week. I had to do a double take and my fiance did not quite understand my astounded reaction.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="501">8:21</a> I like how you made sure to time the Dyson fan’s duration exactly to the length of the music for the bit

People who live in places with shit air quality usually are not in the same category with ppl who shell out for 1k dyson headphonies

I love the microphone commentary you do!

MKBHD Reviewed this and got a doctor involved that after testing concluded that these actually make the air you're breathing worse

Imagine if someone sits on the bus next to you, dead eyes you, and turns on the visor

"Portable air filtration" So, a paint mask?

I did not expect the substitution and it made me laugh. Great job xD

"Kids are cruel Jack and I'm in touch with my inner child"

Lol this was funny, especially the part <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="508">8:28</a> with the microphone where he calls it a Dyson Stick Guy 🎤

All hail the Dyzone freaks, funky odors and all!

I've been waiting AGES for this!

okay i was ecstatic that you just put a really nice microphone up to a Dyson fan, I can't get over that.

I wasn't aware that bass was more difficult for ANC--during band practice my skullcrushers seem to do great with everything except high end. But I guess that makes sense eh cause the crushers are busy churning out that stinky bass 🫠

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="211">3:31</a> It's from a vacuum cleaner company, of course it sucks! *insert two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff*

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="148">2:28</a> "ah yes, the second level of sonic 2" *proceeds to show the 9th level of sonic mania*

Been waiting for this review

Truly the silliest headphones known to man.

the vacuum industry has been stagnant for decades, good on 'em for making a complete toasterfridge in another totally stagnant industry

Thank you for the A/B testing between the sennheisers and the Dysons

I fully expected the music to cut to an actual vacuum at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="507">8:27</a> and was a little disappointed when it didn't.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="563">9:23</a> sorry mate but that is incorrect... It's actually the other way around! The way noise canceling works is that the chip inside matches a negative sound wave to an incoming one to try and cancel it. The thing is, it has to do so very precisely which is really hard on high frequency soundwaves! Bass is canceled out really easily which you can test if you put on some bassy music and put in some good noise canceling ear/headphones!

I kinda knew he was gonna cover them when i first saw the ads of them

full on expected him to stick the freaky ears on a stick in the middle of that fan

such beautiful wind noises!

Finally! I worked as an intern at Dyson and I’ve been waiting for this video for the longest time. Don’t ask for my opinion on them…

Dyson vacuum

it took them more than 2 years to release a sub par product in australia. now that is something quite special

This feels like a proof of concept more than a product. You can see that in the fact of how the vents snap together; one magnet under the vent hole, rather than two opposed magnets or a recessed mating with a ring of magnets, etc. You can have a strong connection here and still be flexible, they just chose not to do that and instead rush an aesthetically okay looking prototype to market. I almost want to see a second generation of these, but with how hard these flopped. Honestly I don't even know how you would make this idea work in the first place, fans are just loud as all hell and have a wide range in their noise spectrum, the style of fan is quite easily worse for this as well, and you can't just strap them onto the back of some cans and expect them to work. Headbands move too much and that would just complicate things, though this would be an interesting approach; maybe have one of those multi-part bands where the frame itself is rigid as all hell with a fabric band that straddles your dome. I think the ultimate solution would be offsetting the fan portion, you know how cooling/heating neckbands exist with their stupid little fans, something like that, but have them tie up into the headset and the mouthpiece; human movement makes this difficult, but following the neck before teeing off into the sides of the face would work best, we all know how bad neckband earbuds are even with extra slack in their wires. Stemming from the previous, could just have a back of the head strap that houses the fans, an ear-level one would cause issues with head movement, but offsetting it upwards to where head straps naturally exist would work, tying the ducting between low mouth, mid ear, and high fan/filter set would result in a _/‾ shape that is also more aerodynamic internally, which would reduce wind noise; the only problem here is that you'd have a torque on the ears where the two ends want to equalize with gravity, a typical mid-head band won't fix this, you'd need a forward-slanting headband that sits where the forehead crests into your dome, and there can't be anything opposing this due to skull-neck movement- alternatively, something that sits on your dome fully with a chinstrap, like the Trend AirShield, but instead of a full face capsule it'd just be a mouthpiece. The issue with actively ventilated PPE stuff is that it very quickly devolves into full helmets, the previous example of the AirShield is one of the better non-mask solutions, but it also fully seals around your head where a helmet chin strap would be, anything beyond this would be a visorless moto helmet with proper face sealing. And that's the major issue with these kinds of things, active ventilation or not, you need a proper seal around your blowholes for it to actually work, elsewise you get all of the nasty shit you're wanting to filter out re-entering the airstream. The idea of actively forcing air onto yourself in an open manner just does not work, and given enough of an open gap and enough air particulate it might actually exacerbate the issue due to how particulate moves. Any solution would need a seal, and that immediately kills the product for the wider consumer base, where only professionals who need PPE while also having the convenience of things like headphones would buy into this stuff; case in point is something like ISOtunes, which puts a can into typical hearing protection muffs. What ISOtunes is doing with music in muffs is what the future of an active ventilation PPE set of cans will have to be. Dyson targeted the wrong market with a bad product, and banked off of what the pandemic was causing to gain traction in the incorrect market. Funnily enough, the Trend AirShield does have a clip-on attachment for muffs, so this solution is essentially compatible with cans, you just have to put the work into converting a set to the clip system and making them fully wireless, unless you want a mess of wires running across the helmet alla the DeLorean time machine. This kind of solution is the way forward for what this product is trying to do, you will always have some amount of helmet to it, you need to offset the fan/filter pack, you need sealing on the face, the least would be open upper face with an open lower back of the head with some weird forward head strap or dome cap, any other lesser solution introduces major hinderances in various aspects. Though at this point just make a full ass helmet. The same kind of tech bro that would invest into this is also the kind that wears an XR headset out in public. Just give them the damn thing with the headset built in, digitize the visor, have enough field of view for people to be happy with VR, built that into the ventilation helmet. The non-techbro alternative would be to have a fully separate mouthpiece that actively moves air, but then you look like a freak that's into gas masks; this would also be the proper PPE solution that workers that need said PPE would use, by the way. There's just no market for any of this, you either have shameless people with more money than brains or you have the common public that shames those people, then you have a narrow gap of where someone wants PPE and needs enclosed comfort of their own music whereas most jobsites will just have a radio blaring whatever music is put on; there's just no place where this reasonably exists outside of two hyper niche areas on the opposing sides of the spectrum. And honestly, if one of the Asian countries that has mask wearers pre and post pandemic hasn't attempted to produce something like this, I have no hope for the concept. You know one of those countries would be the first to jump on the concept and do it well as a consumer product. Yet, we don't see this. It's a flawed idea. Again, you have two hyper niche use cases at completely opposite ends of the use spectrum that would even touch something like this, it makes no marketable sense, just use separate pieces of gear if you fit into either niche. And the further issue with this is that these only used carbon filters, not filters you'd realistically use anywhere. Haha no more smelly, but anything else will still rip you a new one. Concept is flawed, execution is flawed, there's no point to this product, there's no point to this product category, again just use separate pieces of gear if you really need the niche combinations of things.

Wade's head must be built different, my ear phonies fit fine with or without swivel

Now i can hear air

'You crapped your way to victory' is my new favorite.

Found these and was HOPING for a review man

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="418">6:58</a> it sounds like you're doing vacuum while talking to someone.

can we have a video called "getting into the dyson zone" with you exploring a boatload of random freaky dyson products. would be cool to see as they are basically the apple of random home devices. i kinda misread the title as that and it seems like a fun thing to watch

I loved the video and the fact that you mentioned the off gases, the new carpets in the early 80’s would give me migraines, the only times I ever had migraines... lol

The factories dumping chemicals at night is a big problem in industry

All the reports from the smart people that I have seen suggest that these are unlikely to help much at all when it comes to the effects of pollutants being in the air around you. You really cannot get away from having a sealed system if you want to take the outside air out of the equation. Which then leaves you with the moisture problem, as you pointed out. There are two basic solutions to that issue, either you can have some kind of desiccant which absorbs the moisture and will need to be replaced, this could theoretically be integrated into a mask. Or you can have some other system that takes that moisture and condenses it away from you, in that sort of system you are basically looking at a space suit type of deal, and even then you may need a desiccant depending on design. Personally I'm all for people wearing basically unpressurised spacesuits, if we build them right they can keep you cool *and* give you enough air for 8 hours+, just like actual suits for space do right now. The only issue is getting them to weigh...less than 310 lbs (and given that the suit itself is only 110 lbs that may be a problem). Still given we don't have the needs of literally space I'm sure you could come up with something practical that weighs in at 50lbs or less, and at that point it's tolerable