Dyson release air-purifying headphones - but they come with a hefty price tag

A brace of high-end headphones equipped with a idiosyncratic aerial purifier that whitethorn permission you looking similar a Batman villain are going connected merchantability for a whopping £749.

Dyson's archetypal effort astatine an audio instrumentality was announced earlier this year, boasting sound cancellation exertion synonymous with soon-to-be marketplace rivals from the likes of Sony, Apple, and Bose.

But the astir eye-catching diagnostic was an attachable mouthpiece, drafting comparisons with the disguise worn by superpowered combatant Bane successful the DC Comics series.

It is the effect of six years of development, arsenic the institution sought to make a portable iteration of its existing aerial purification technology.

The visor-like shield, which attaches to the cups of the headphones, sits implicit the user's chemoreceptor and mouth, pumping retired filtered aerial to combat vulnerability to aerial pollution.

Chief technologist Jake Dyson said: "The Dyson Zone purifies the aerial you respire connected the move.

"And dissimilar look masks, it delivers a plume of caller aerial without touching your face, utilizing high-performance filters and 2 miniaturised aerial pumps".

What are the specs similar - and erstwhile bash they get released?

Dyson says the headphones connection up to 50 hours of audio artillery life, comparable to the apical performers successful the field.

But that clip takes a monolithic deed if you usage the aerial purifier arsenic well, dropping to astir 4 hours.

If you bash crook it on, the institution says the filtration strategy tin seizure 99% of particle contamination and tin beryllium adapted based connected the aerial prime by utilizing a smartphone app.

It was archetypal trialled successful the notoriously smoggy metropolis of Beijing, and the last merchandise volition motorboat successful China successful January.

It volition travel into the UK, Ireland, the US, Hong Kong and Singapore successful March, priced £749/$949.