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Some headphones actively cancelled out the [[waveform]]s of undesired external noises. These were called [[noise-cancelling headphones]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dead Media (audio story)|Dead Media]]'')
Some headphones actively cancelled out the [[waveform]]s of undesired external noises. These were called [[noise-cancelling headphones]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dead Media (audio story)|Dead Media]]'')


Headphones could also be used for [[communication]], particularly those with a [[microphone]] component. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'')
Smaller, portable forms of headphones existed which were fitted to the outer ear rather than worn over the wearer's head. These were known as [[earphones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Fear Buds (comic story)|Fear Buds]]'' etc.)
 
Headphones could also be used for [[communication]], particularly those with a [[microphone]] component. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'' etc.)
 
== History ==
== History ==
[[File:SarahJaneSmithAiS.jpg|thumb|left|[[Sarah Jane Smith]] wears headphones with a [[microphone]] attachment. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'')
[[File:SarahJaneSmithAiS.jpg|thumb|left|[[Sarah Jane Smith]] wears headphones with a [[microphone]] attachment. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'')
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On board the ''[[Hyperion III]]'', [[Melanie Bush]] listened to tape recordings through headphones to help her exercise in the space-liner's [[gymnasium]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)|Terror of the Vervoids]]'')
On board the ''[[Hyperion III]]'', [[Melanie Bush]] listened to tape recordings through headphones to help her exercise in the space-liner's [[gymnasium]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)|Terror of the Vervoids]]'')


==Earphones==
== Other realities ==
[[File:DexterEarphones.jpg|thumb|left|[[Dexter (42)|Miss Dexter]] wearing earphones. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'')]]
On [[Pete's World]], the [[EarPod]]s produced by [[Cybus Industries]] served as that universe's equivalent of the headphones of [[the Doctor's universe]], with similar functions such as allowing their wearer to listen to audio and communicate. However, the EarPods were much more technologically advanced, also allowing their wearers to [[Daily Download|download information into their brains]] as well as serving as covert [[mind control]] devices. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[EarPod (feature)|EarPod]]'')
Earphones, also known as earbuds, were a smaller, portable form of headphones fitted to the outer ear rather than worn over the head. Like headphones, these were also primarily used for listening to audio privately. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Fear Buds (comic story)|Fear Buds]]'' et al)
 
While working for [[Saxon Master|Harold Saxon]], [[Dexter (42)|Miss Dexter]] used earphones to listen in on phone calls between [[Martha Jones]] and her mother [[Francine Jones]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')
 
[[Lucy Skinner]] listened to [[indie]] music with her earphones. She downloaded music from the bands [[Women of War]], [[Rain Green]], [[Giddy Nuisance]] and [[The Motorboats]] onto the computer at the [[Tycho Project]]. Her [[Nicholas Skinner|father]] told her off, and Lucy promptly took out her earphones and apologised. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Sontaran (TV story)|The Last Sontaran]]'')
 
In [[2007]], [[C'rizz]] once attacked bystanders in [[King's Cross station]]. [[Luke Tillyard]], discovering that [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley Pollard]] was running from C'rizz, used the earphones from his [[MP3 player]] on C'rizz which rendered him unconscious. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salva Mea (short story)|Salva Mea]]'')
 
After [[Prisoner Zero]] escaped from an [[Atraxi]] extra-dimensional [[prison]], the Atraxi hijacked the electronics of [[Earth]] to broadcast a warning ordering Prisoner Zero to vacate or "the human residence will be [[incineration|incinerated]]". A [[Leadworth]] woman was confused when she heard the Atraxi warning through her music player's earphones. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
 
When a plate-sized [[Virtual]] ship crashed in London in [[2011]], the Virtuals escaped by uploading themselves onto the [[internet]] via a music track called "''Alien Infiltration''". This caused several people who listened to it through earphones to enter into a trance and walk out into the streets until the [[Eleventh Doctor]] deleted the Virtuals from the internet server and sent them back to their own dimension. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Sound Bytes]]'')
 
After being caught listening to music on earbuds at school, [[Ralph (Fear Buds)|Ralph]] used [[Mkali]] technology to send out a jamming signal to all other earbud devices. This interfered with the brain waves of his classmates, allowing Ralph to control them through their earbuds until the [[Twelfth Doctor]] intervened. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fear Buds (comic story)|Fear Buds]]'')
 
The [[C-Fish]] was a portable music player developed in the [[2020s]] which had tiny earphones. [[Jack Harkness]] stored a C-Fish X20 in a locker at [[King's Cross]] as a [[Time Agent]]. He retrieved it in [[1967]] when he was working for [[Torchwood Three]], just because he wanted to listen to some music. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trace Memory (novel)|Trace Memory]]'')
 
==Other realities==
On [[Pete's World]], the [[EarPod]]s produced by [[Cybus Industries]] served as that universe's equivalent of the earphones and headphones of [[the Doctor's universe]], with similar functions such as allowing their wearer to listen to audio and communicate. Like earphones, the EarPods were also fitted to the wearer's ears. However, the EarPods were much more technologically advanced, also allowing their wearers to [[Daily Download|download information into their brains]] as well as serving as covert [[mind control]] devices. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]''), ([[PROSE]]: ''[[EarPod (feature)|EarPod]]'')


In the [[Shadow World]], the [[Twelfth Doctor (Shadow World)|Twelfth Doctor]] used earphones to listen to an audio transcription of the ''[[Veritas (text)|Veritas]]'' text via a [[laptop]], which he could not read due to his [[blindness]] sustained at [[Chasm Forge]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Extremis (TV story)|Extremis]]'')
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Revision as of 21:53, 18 November 2023

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Headphones were headwear speakers that were worn over the wearer's ears and used to play audio privately.

Some headphones actively cancelled out the waveforms of undesired external noises. These were called noise-cancelling headphones. (AUDIO: Dead Media)

Smaller, portable forms of headphones existed which were fitted to the outer ear rather than worn over the wearer's head. These were known as earphones. (TV: 42, COMIC: Fear Buds etc.)

Headphones could also be used for communication, particularly those with a microphone component. (TV: The Ark in Space etc.)

History

Sarah Jane Smith wears headphones with a microphone attachment. (TV: The Ark in Space)

BOSS used a form of headphones to condition and hypnotise humans such as Jocelyn Stevens and Ralph Fell. (TV: The Green Death)

Professor Grisenko enjoyed listening to Western music, such as Ultravox and Duran Duran, through his Walkman headphones while stationed on the Soviet submarine the Firebird. (TV: Cold War)

In 1984, Tegan Jovanka attempted to call out to a man using a metal detector on the mud banks of the River Thames while being pursued by Lytton's policemen. However, as the man was wearing headphones, he could not hear her and was shot by the fake policemen. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)

The Snowcap Base in Antarctica used headphones to communicate with the crew of the Zeus IV and Zeus V. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

Students of Deffry Vale High School used headphones for lessons. These were used by the Krillitanes to entrance them into cracking the Skasis Paradigm. (TV: School Reunion)

The Tenth Doctor witnessed a man influenced by the Master's Archangel Network wearing headphones and tapping with the rhythm of the Drumming. (TV: The Sound of Drums)

As he was outside using his telescope, Wilfred Mott missed the arrival of the Adiposian First Family's nursery ship over London as he had his back turned and was wearing headphones. (TV: Partners in Crime)

During the Monk invasion, a resistance group led by the Twelfth Doctor broke into the Cathedral. The members of the resistance group wore headphones which played a recording by Bill Potts reminding them of the Monks true nature and why they are fighting them, in order to resist the True History which was being transmitted from the Cathedral. (TV: The Lie of the Land)

Max Collins played Xbox using headphones, so as not to be detected by his parents. (PROSE: Joyride)

Max listened to internet pornography downloaded onto his computer through headphones. (AUDIO: torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor)

Elliot Northover used headphones to listen to audio books, as he found it easier than reading due to his Dyslexia. (TV: The Hungry Earth)

When Tracey's belongings were stolen, all he had left were a pair of Walkman headphones. (PROSE: Hospitality)

In 2079, technicians and communications officers on board Space Station W3 used headphones in the Operations and Communications Room. (TV: The Wheel in Space)

Passengers aboard Crusader 50 shuttle buses received headphones for listening to entertainment channels. (TV: Midnight)

On board the Hyperion III, Melanie Bush listened to tape recordings through headphones to help her exercise in the space-liner's gymnasium. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids)

Other realities

On Pete's World, the EarPods produced by Cybus Industries served as that universe's equivalent of the headphones of the Doctor's universe, with similar functions such as allowing their wearer to listen to audio and communicate. However, the EarPods were much more technologically advanced, also allowing their wearers to download information into their brains as well as serving as covert mind control devices. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, PROSE: EarPod)

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