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Multifunction

button

Along with pairing them

to your phone, this neat

nobule on the sunglasses’

right arm is multifunction,

allowing you to play and

pause your music (the

built-in battery allows up

to 3.5 hours of playback),

call up Siri and Google

Assistant voice control

and even take a call.

Noise suppression

You may think of noise-

cancelling as keeping

ambient noise out, but these

strategically placed speakers

on the arms stop your own

music from leaking and

suppress 99 per cent of

the sound not directed at

the ear. We still wouldn’t

recommend these in a

waiting room, but for the

street or beach your Taylor

Swift secret will stay safe.

Keep forgetting your

AirPods? Despair not. Bose’s first sunglasses will ensure that as long as you’re looking

good, your music’s sounding good. The frames connect via Bluetooth, with directional

speakers broadcasting directly to your ears (and making you look strange taking calls).

YOUR NEW EARPHONES? SHADES

Audible AR

Augmented reality sounds good, but

often the actual reality is somewhat

different. Bose has created an open ecosystem

for app developers to create sound-only AR tools,

using the sunglasses’ head motion sensor and GPS from your

phone in all manner of useful ways – for example, the golf

app that beeps to let you know the exact direction of the hole.

DETAILS TECH

FROM £199.95. BOSE.COM Story by Stuart McGurk

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