Apple Patents Bone Conduction Technology for Potential AirPods 3

Apple has filed a new patent for technology that could be used in the upcoming AirPods 3, a system that delivers audio through bone conduction as opposed to the common air-based method.The new technology allows users to hear audio content without any earpieces, bypassing the eardrums and transmitting sound to the inner ear through bones in the skull. It's the same technique that near-deaf composer Beethoven used when writing music: he bit down on a rod that he hooked onto the piano to hear its s...