Hello, Google Pixel Buds (and real-time translation). Goodbye, headphone jack.

At a splashy event in San Francisco to unveil its latest

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generation of Pixel smartphones, Google debuted Google Pixel Buds, its own Bluetooth earbuds priced at $159.

Their biggest selling point of the Pixel Buds is that they come equipped with the smarts of Google Assistant (though they don't come with the purchase of a Pixel phone) and a really nifty feature: real-time translations of conversations through Google Translate in 40 languages.

The downside: Google has jettisoned the headphone jack on the Pixel, leaving just a USB-C data/charge port. If this sounds familiar, it's because the headphone jack is increasingly an endangered feature on smartphones, thanks in large part to Apple.

Apple began pushing people toward wireless earphones with the iPhone 7 and the introduction of AirPods, Bluetooth headphones that are not attached by a wire. You just pop each bud into your ear.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-10-google-pixel-buds-real-time-goodbye.html#jCp