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I'm David Conaway executive editor for cnet.com and I'm here with the aftershocks sports M two headphones that's right I said headphones even though these are earphones or they at least they look like earphones they don't actually go in your ears they use bone conduction technology to pass sound through your cheek bones this is a military technology that was designed for communications for military use and now it's made it into some of these consumer headphones you'll see a few of them out there and they're really designed for someone who wants to have that open ear experience to let sound in while you're riding a bike or doing exercise these leave your ear completely open and then you do get sound passed through your cheek bone how is that sound well it's not all that great at least for music I actually liked it I was on the treadmill watching TV with these and they actually sound very good with speech they were also good for making calls these do have a mic built into the battery pack which is rechargeable via USB these are aftershocks second generation bone conduction earphones there's also a Bluetooth model that's in the works one of the funny things about wearing these headphones is that when you do crank up the bomb they will vibrate on your cheeks which kind of tickles a little bit ideally you would use these at more moderate volume levels and I would equate the sound of sort of listening to almost a transistor radio through earphones they are stereo and they sound okay but certainly not like your typical earbud style headphones so what I'd say about these guys is if you're a stickler for good sound these are not the headphones for you these are really for someone who wants more casual listing and that open ear experience that really wants to let the outside environment in and be able to hear cars coming and also they are good for use at the gym if you are watching TV and making calls those are the aftershokz sports m to bone conducting headphones thanks for watching you