At last, a product that makes us glad to be alive! The Waza-Airs are so good, we wonder if they render small practice amps obsolete. Impressively, this ‘virtual band’ can also be placed next to your amp for uncanny realism. If that’s not enough, you can jam to tunes streamed over Bluetooth, too. It’s a surreal yet seductive playing experience. In other words, place your virtual amp near the window of your real room, and even if you turn to face the opposite wall it will still sound as if the amp is placed by the window. Incredibly, you can also set the amp to maintain its position regardless of where you turn your head. These headphones can replicate this, enabling you to place a virtual amp wherever you want it. Most likely, it’ll be behind you or in front of you, but it could be anywhere in a 360-degree circle. When playing a guitar through a standard amp, a big part of your adventure depends on where that amp sits in the room. The Waza-Airs also pack spatial technology and a gyroscope that elevates the player experience to another level. We’re already sold, but we haven’t got to the really clever bit yet. They’re totally wireless, too – just plug the tidy transmitter into your guitar’s output jack and you’ll be free to rock 'n’ roll. Once powered-up, the Waza-Airs gives you access to five great-sounding amps derived from the Katana stage amplifier series, together with more than 50 effects from the Boss Tone Studio app. The boffins at Boss clearly know their stuff when it comes to miniaturisation. To be frank, they just look like an unassuming pair of squared-off headphones with some shiny steel detailing. Fortunately, the headphones are relatively sleek, lightweight and good-looking in a retro-postmodern, authentically faux Japanese kinda way. This product just wouldn’t be the same if it looked like a couple of oversized techy carbuncles growing out of your head. The idea is simple enough – stuff some modelling technology into a pair of cans – but the execution is way cooler than that. The Boss Waza-Air headphones are exactly this type of product, the kind that feels like it’s arrived suddenly and unexpectedly from the future to change our lives forever. Every few months, a tantalising futuristic fantasy product is suddenly here, just a mouse-click away from the joys of ownership.
Iron Man-style jet suits, superfast self-driving electric cars, digital money, apple-pie-flavoured Baileys. Wow, we’re living through incredible times.
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