The weirdest headphones at CES will launch on Kickstarter next month

There’s ne'er a shortage of weird tech debuting astatine CES each year. A caller institution called Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter, aliases TDM, announced a peculiar brace of headphones astatine the show earlier this period pinch a characteristic nary 1 has tried before. The Neo headphones tin beryllium rolled up for illustration a hedgehog which turns them into a compact Bluetooth speaker for those times erstwhile you want to stock a existent banger pinch those astir you. They were expected to motorboat done a Kickstarter slated for this month, but TDM now says the crowdfunding run will officially open connected February 10th, 2026.

Pricing for the Neo is group to beryllium $249 erstwhile they yet motorboat successful July 2026, but those placing preorders by backing the Kickstarter tin get the headphones discounted to $179.

Designed to make it easier to stock music, the earcups connected the Neo headphones each characteristic some inward and outward-facing 40mm drivers. In headphone mode only the inward-facing drivers are utilized for a backstage listening experience. When they’re rolled up, the Neo automatically switches to only utilizing the outward-facing drivers for speaker mode, but there’s besides a fastener for toggling betwixt some modes manually.

The Verge’s John Higgins had the chance to spell hands-on pinch the Neo during CES 2026. While the headphones were a spot dense because of their batteries and other hardware successful each earcup, he besides recovered that rolling them up to move betwixt modes was “easy and fast” and “a small spot of fun, too.”