Honor’s FlyPods Pro earphones unlock your phone with your bones

First it was your fingerprint, then your face, now Honor’s new wireless earphones can use your skeleton to unlock your phone. The FlyPods Pro use a combination of voice recognition and BoneID tech, which recognises sounds conducted by your skull to verify it’s you, activate Honor’s YoYo voice assistant and authenticate mobile payments. There’s also an IP54 waterproof rating, Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity and a distinctly Apple-esque carry case that doubles as a charger, although this one can also be recharged wirelessly as well as via USB-C. They’re only available in China right now, with a price tag of ¥999, which works out at around £110. A pair without the BoneID tech is also available for ¥799/£89.

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Stuff's second Tom has been writing for the magazine and website since 2006, when smartphones were only for massive nerds and you could say “Alexa” out loud without a robot answering. Over the years he’s written about everything from MP3s to NFTs, played FIFA with Trent Alexander-Arnold, and amassed a really quite impressive collection of USB sticks.

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