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Bicycle bell designed to defeat noise-cancelling headphones

Rob Beschizza
Apr 08, 2026
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Škoda’s DuoBell

Škoda’s DuoBell is designed to be heard by people wearing high-end headphones, inexpensively blowing through active noise cancellation without being ridiculously loud or unnecessarily “smart.” It’s a “simple analog solution” with has no electrical components and sounds like a normal bike bell. But in the harmonics is a magic note: 750 Hz.

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