Clear Headband Plays Music As An Earbud Alternative  [Pics]
ECAL student Renaud Defrancesco designed a listening device made
of transparent acrylic glass.  Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne
student Renaud Defrancesco has designed a headband that is made
of a transparent acrylic glass and sends music vibrations across
its surface to the user’s ears.  The VIBSO headphones play music
via Bluetooth and has a vibrating electromagnet that is hidden
under an opaque plastic cover on top of the head and
helps create the sound for the wearer. The electromagnet works
like a speaker and has a connecting element that causes a
membrane to vibrate and create sounds. The membrane, in this
case, is made in a two-mm-thick transparent acrylic glass.
Defrancesco used acrylic glass because it transmits sounds well
and is flexible and easy to form.   The vibrations move down the
membrane and over the surface that cover the ears, allowing the
wearer to hear the music but not feel the vibrations. The shape
of the headphones helps t