These wireless headphones roll up to become a Bluetooth speaker

A caller institution called TDM, aliases “Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter,” has announced its first brace of wireless headphones astatine CES 2026 pinch a unsocial multifunctional design. The Neo look for illustration a accepted brace of over-ear wireless headphones but characteristic an other elastic headband that tin beryllium twisted and rolled up astir the receptor cups to move them into a compact wireless speaker.

Headphones that double arsenic speakers aren’t an wholly caller idea, but erstwhile offerings either usage ear cups that rotate 180 degrees to look outward, aliases receptor cups pinch an open-back design truthful that everything you perceive to is heard by those astir you. The Neo return a different approach. A brace of 40mm drivers connected the wrong of the receptor cups are utilized successful headphone mode truthful your listening remains private. Switching to speaker mode, either by pressing a fastener aliases rolling the Neo up, turns those interior drivers disconnected and activates a 2nd brace of outward-facing 40mm drivers truthful your euphony tin beryllium shared.

TDM claims awesome artillery life of up to 200 hours successful headphone mode, but that drops to conscionable complete 10 hours successful speaker mode while those 40mm drivers are pumping retired much sound. The Neo uses a brace of rechargeable 1,500mAh batteries that are user-replaceable, perchance prolonging the life of the headphones. Wireless connectivity is handled done Bluetooth 6 pinch multipoint and Auracast support, aliases you tin besides usage a 3.5mm audio cablegram pinch older devices. There’s besides a microphone for making calls aliases activating sound assistants including Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant successful headphone aliases speaker mode.

TDM plans to make the Neo headphones disposable done a Kickstarter crowdfunding run launching successful January 2026. They’ll beryllium disposable successful achromatic aliases achromatic colour options for $249. That positions them astatine the higher extremity of the wireless headphone spectrum, but they’re missing a celebrated characteristic typically recovered astatine that value point: progressive sound cancelling. The Neo only trust connected their representation foam receptor cushions to passively artifact unwanted sounds. Even pinch the added speaker functionality, that could make them a reliable sell.