Skoda develops bike bell that can bypass noise-cancelling headphones, and then gives the technology away for free

The clever dual-frequency design can trick algorithms and be heard from 50 feet further away than traditional bells ...

Skoda’s bike bell will pierce your noise-canceling headphones, and hopefully save your life

With a precisely tuned frequency and an irregular strike pattern that defeats ANC algorithms, Skoda's DuoBell is quietly the ...

Not even noise-cancelling headphones can block this bicycle bell

Skoda designed a new bike bell that slips through active noise cancellation using a specific frequency gap that most ...

This Clever Bike Bell Can Even Be Heard by People Wearing Noise-Canceling Headphones

People with headphones using active noise cancellation are often left in a perceptive bubble where they fail to react—or ...
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Is there a bike bell that you can hear even with noise-canceling headphones?

Many of us have had this experience at some point — you’re out and about with your noise-canceling headphones on, and you ...
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This Bike Bell Punches Through Active Noise Cancellation Headphones, Making Them Useless

Czech carmaker Skoda said it came up with a way for bike bells to make themselves heard to pedestrians wearing active noise cancellation headphones.

Your fancy noise-canceling headphones have a weakness, and Skoda just found it

The Skoda DuoBell is a new mechanical bike bell designed to penetrate noise-canceling headphones using a specific frequency ...