You dont listen to this jacket. You feel it: someone made a sci-fi jacket
that includes 180 built-in speakers, and for way weirder reasons than youd expect

Date:
Wed, 20 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Description:
Vollebak's new Sonic Jacket is a marvel of engineering, and you could
actually buy one theoretically

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Vollebak reveals a Sonic Jacket with 180 built-in speakers It's designed to immerse you in frequencies, not music The idea is to help get your brain into "entrainment" states If you saw the jacket worn in the picture above and thought it looked like something out of a sci-fi movie, you're not wrong. It was designed by a special effects
team that's worked on movies such as The Martian , Dune and Marvel projects. But it's no costume.

This is a new technological monstrosity from clothing brand Vollebak, which
we previously saw release a graphene rain jacket , and quite a few other
novel pieces of science-inspired clothing. This is the Sonic Jacket, and it's a big puffy coat bearing 180 speakers. That's right, 180 speakers, each one 32mm across, spread across your torso and arms and head. They apparently output a frequency range from 4Hz to 20,000Hz, so they go a lot lower than your average earbuds, with Vollebak claiming "You don't listen to this
jacket. You feel it." Latest Videos From You may like I heard two 'invisible' speakers that truly give you a 'wall of sound' 'I will move mountains to hear them': meet Magico's S7 2026 speakers This 60-inch subwoofer hits 8Hz with 20,000W of power, and is 6 feet tall

Actually, that's the tame part of what it claims. The more notable quote is "Maybe youll orgasm. Maybe youll shit yourself. Maybe youll find God so maybe youll want to be careful where you wear it."

As a tech reviewer, I should probably note: this thing looks about as waterproof as candy floss. With all those wires on its outside, I'd be terrified to wear this in public; it'd catch on just about anything you pass, and I'm scared to think about what a rain shower would do.

You'd expect a novel jacket like this to cost an eye-watering amount Vollebak's scientific-themed twists on clothing fetch a premium compared to their 'normal' equivalents but a price hasn't been revealed yet. Instead,
you can join a waiting list, with the full price only to be announced when it's on sale. Listening to a body of work (Image credit: Vollebak) So, this
is basically just a wearable loudspeaker right? Designed to make music feel incredibly immersive, and annoy everyone else on the bus? Wrong: it doesn't sound like this jacket can even play music and at the very least, it shouldn't. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

The Sonic Jacket has a built-in MP3 player and microSD card reader, with Vollebak also working on an app that'll let you control the jacket via Bluetooth. But the brand doesn't talk about these as for music: instead, they're for playing frequencies.

It sounds like the entire point of this jacket to output consistent sound at
a set frequency, in order to let you control your mood or awaken certain
brain states.

Vollebak refers to "brain hacking" and "entrainment" in the listing page for its jacket, and frequently cites "science" taken from the Pyramids in Giza, prehistoric European ritual sites, Plato and Aristotle, Mesopotamia and Indigenous Australian ceremonies. What to read next I spent a day listening
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Call me a skeptic, but lots of their explanations seem to have one foot in science, and the other in conspiracy theories.

Some neat engineering has been used to make it, though. Apparently, having
180 speakers playing at low frequencies bore a huge fire risk. So the jacket "will exploit one of the strange ways we experience frequency" by outputting two similar frequencies, so your body hears the frequency that exists in the difference.

As you can tell, I'm a little dubious about all the proposed scientific promises of the jacket; anyone who cites the music of the spheres deserves a raised eyebrow or two. But there's something to be said for the benefits of set frequencies I recently tested Samsung's Hearapy app which uses 100Hz waves to quell motion sickness and so I'm ready to be proven wrong when this thing does release.

And if anything, I'm glad Vollebak didn't actually release a jacket for playing music on the go. Society already has too many people who watch TikTok out loud on their phone in public, I don't need it coming from a 180-speaker jacket.

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