15 May 2018 (Rome, Italy) – MWC is naturally heavily-focused on smartphones, mobile accessories, and apps. But pound the 9 exhibit halls long enough (270,000 square meters, 2800 exhibitors, a 40 minute walk end-to-end), and you’ll find lots of interesting technology that doesn’t fall cleanly into those categories. (For my very long read on the entire conference click here.)
This week I am in Rome at my newly opened media center where we do all of our post-production work. The team and I have been going through GBs of videos on intriguing new gadgets and technologies and ideas we came across at MWC but for which we did not have time to complete the edits. We found several we really liked so we’ll start rolling them out.
One of them is a company called VOXOS which is all about bone conduction technology. The integrated bone conduction technology transfers the sound to the head by vibrating the cheekbones. It was one of the start-ups on display in a special Pavillion MWC has for companies with restricted budgets. They got a lot of buzz at the event and their tiny booth was jam packed with attendees.
By creating a pair of (sun)glasses with integrated bone conduction technologies, users will have access to their music and information at all times without being disconnected from their surroundings when compared to inear plugin headsets. Voxos connects with the smartphone via Bluetooth and transfers information, notifications, favorite songs via bone conduction to the brain without blocking the hearing ability allowing the user to hear the traffic and avoid dangerous situations which occur all the time across the globe.
I wore the glasses for a few hours and I was very impressed. After I got home, I spoke with a doctor at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research and he was impressed with the technology, and the intent.
Here is my interview with Maja Koberl, Business Development Officer for VOXOS:
To learn more about VOXOS click on the following link:
