What are open earbuds? How do the headphones work and are they worth it?

Bose Open Earbuds, Sony LinkBuds and Huawei FreeClip in-hand.

If you’ve been keeping an eye on headphone trends over the past year, you’ll have noticed something afoot in the world of in-ear headphones.

Everyone is familiar with the traditional in-ear design, right? Where a driver in each earbud fires music through a tube, directly into your ear canal and down to your eardrum.