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Lee Washington, a product design student currently studying in London at Central Saint Martins, recently posted a video describing an ingeniously simple concept design for headphones that will not get tangled. Essentially, the idea is to apply the same technology of a Ziploc bag to the two separate wires, allowing users to seal them together before putting them away.
Hopefully it will make it’s way to production, and we can all stop fumbling with tangled ear buds, or even bother with learning the best way store headphones. It’s one of those great inventions that begs the question, why didn’t someone think of this sooner? Washington explains the design he thought of while struggling for his ear buds on a bus in this brief YouTube video:
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I sure hope he patented that before you posted it on here.
August 28th, 2009 at 7:48 am
the headphones that airlines give away on their flighrts use this same technique, i believe. nice idea, though.
August 28th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Brilliant.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Try a BudSock instead: http://www.budsock.com/
August 30th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I need thoes badly
August 31st, 2009 at 1:29 am
Maybe if people would buy better headphones than the piece of crap uncomfortable ipod headphones that have atrocious sound quality there wouldn’t be a need for this. I use seinheisser where you wrap the cord for the right ear around the back of your neck. Very convenient and comfortable and the cord never gets in the way.
August 31st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
i’m sorry us lowly peasants are doing ourselves such a disservice using such insulting headphones and can’t afford such privileges of quality such as seinheissers…sadly i spent it all on this 1960’s bordeaux no one seems to care about anymore
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:59 am