My AirPods Pro looks pretty futuristic, but if Tesla CEO Elon Musk has his way, there won't even be earbuds in the music listening future. Yes, the tech mogul claims that implant-based listening devices will simply send signals directly to the brain.

And as wild as it may sound, he didn't say this while enjoying a special treat on Joe Rogan's podcast. We don't know about the first part of that possibility, but Musk has been tweeting his thoughts about the music he's streaming in-house and answering questions online.

The conversation began with Mask tweeting that he was looking for bright minds who have solved difficult problems related to phones/wearables (sealing, signal processing, inductive charging, power management, etc.). Then Twitter user @a_howard8 (who appears to be a computer science student at the University of North Carolina at Asheville) asked, "If I implement neuralink, can I listen to music directly from the chip? to which the answer was a simple "Yes."

Neuralink, which Musk founded in 2016, says it is "developing an ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interface between humans and computers," and embedded computers have long been an attraction. Mask has even said that Neuralink implants will "fuse" humans and AI.

As for when this might happen: on July 16, 2019, the Neuralink Launch Event marked 2020 as the year the company will conduct its first in-human clinical study. There is no sign of progress on this. However, the year is only half over (although it would not be surprising if this is postponed to 2021 due to constraints related to COVID-19).

Musk tweeted on August 28 that we should expect an update to Neuralink. The full original Neuralink presentation can be seen below:

For now, the AirPods Pro is good enough for me until Neuralink passes all the necessary regulations and testing.