Apple’s upcoming over-ear headphones knows your left ear from your right and detects whether the headphones are on your head or neck.
Apple is said to be designing the AirPods Studio, and a brand new leak suggests that these will be the smartest pair of headphones we’ve ever seen.
The over-the-ear AirPods Studio – also rumored to be called AirPods X – will include a number of sensors that can detect how you’re wearing them and re-orient their left and right audio channels to match, according to sources who spoke to 9to5Mac.
On top of correctly identifying which ear is which, the headphones will supposedly be able to detect whether the headphones are on your head or neck, and pause the music when you’re not wearing them, a common feature of in-ear headphones, like AirPods and AirPods Pro, but one that’s seldom seen on over-ear cans.
