Dyson Zone – Wearable Audio and Air Purifier

    The Dyson Zone cleans the air for your nose and removes noise from your ears

    Dyson has created something that no other brands could pull off: a wearable air purification system. It is six years in the making but only possible with Dyson’s 30-year expertise in airflow, filtration and motors technologies.

    Just like all other Dyson air purification products, the Dyson Zone not only filters purified air and channels to your nose, it monitors the air quality and shows real-time through the Dyson smartphone app when the airflow system is turned on. It displays an air quality scale from 0 to 9 to indicate the presence of nitrogen dioxide. There needs no further elaboration on how the quality of the electrostatic and carbon filters offered by Dyson Zone, capture 99% of particle pollution as small as 0.1 microns such as allergens as well as construction dust, sewerage or stale air.

    The other part of the Dyson Zone is audio, a new endeavour from Dyson. Coming from a company without audio background, it is very good, delivering good musical clarity and details, while being less intensive in the bass department. There are three preset equaliser options – neutral, enhanced, and bass boost.

    Even with bass boost mode, the bass does not overshadow the upper frequencies, yet the sub-frequencies are audibly reproduced at tame levels. On the other hand, the treble is clean and sparkling. Listening at higher volumes would make it sound messy with some harshness. Controlling audio playback is via a 5-way joystick, which is honestly a good design compared to most other headphones.

    Dyson wants to make sure that they get the noise cancelling right, so they fitted 11 microphones all over the Dyson Zone to monitor and remove unwanted ambient noise. The ANC is one of the better ones, though the Achilles heel is that it still could not eliminate the motor noise of the filtration system. You can still hear soft high-pitched whirring sounds when no music is played.

    Battery life is a mixed bag. Without the purification engine, users can enjoy 50 hours of audio. When the airflow is enabled, running at the lowest speed will deplete the battery in 4 hours, while the highest speed can only last 90 minutes. The headphones are well-built but bulky and heavy, so it would not be my choice of headphones unless I want to use the air purification system.

    Using the Dyson Zone puts you literally in the zone and distances you from bad noise and poor air quality.

    The Dyson Zone is available now from S$1,249 onwards and comes in two colours – Prussian Blue and Bright Copper. Click here to purchase.