#open-ear-earbuds

#open-ear-earbuds

Earbuds work best when you forget that they exist, even as they are in your ears or wrapped around your head. In actuality, a good earbud is a conduit for something else, like a good workout with bone conduction headphones or a locked-in eight hours of uninterrupted work at your chatter-filled desk job with noise-canceling earbuds. So when I was sent the earbuds, the latest from one of my favorite design-forward tech companies,

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still a week away, but you don't have to wait till then to start saving. Almost all big retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart are offering plenty of early deals already, and we're spotting deep discounts on some of the best earbuds out there. Amazon, in particular, is being the most generous right now and has dropped the price of Shokz OpenFit 2 to just $125.

If you find traditional wireless earbuds uncomfortable, or maybe they just won't stay in no matter what you do, there's still hope, thanks to open-ear earbuds like Baseus's Inspire XC1. Open-ear earbuds don't sit directly in your ear, up against your ear canal, which gives them two major advantages over the more common "closed" design (think AirPods Pro with the silicone ear tips): better comfort and situational awareness.