The weirdest headphones at CES will launch on Kickstarter subsequent month

There’s by no means a scarcity of bizarre tech debuting at CES yearly. A brand new firm referred to as Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter, or TDM, introduced a peculiar pair of headphones on the present earlier this month with a characteristic nobody has tried earlier than. The Neo headphones might be rolled up like a hedgehog which turns them right into a compact Bluetooth speaker for these instances while you wish to share an actual banger with these round you. They had been anticipated to launch by way of a Kickstarter slated for this month, however TDM now says the crowdfunding campaign will officially open on February tenth, 2026.

Pricing for the Neo is about to be $249 once they finally launch in July 2026, however these inserting preorders by backing the Kickstarter can get the headphones discounted to $179.

Designed to make it simpler to share music, the earcups on the Neo headphones every characteristic each inward and outward-facing 40mm drivers. In headphone mode solely the inward-facing drivers are used for a non-public listening expertise. When they’re rolled up, the Neo mechanically switches to solely utilizing the outward-facing drivers for speaker mode, however there’s additionally a button for toggling between each modes manually.

The Verge’s John Higgins had the prospect to go hands-on with the Neo during CES 2026. While the headphones had been a bit heavy due to their batteries and additional {hardware} in every earcup, he additionally discovered that rolling them as much as change between modes was “easy and fast” and “a little bit of fun, too.”