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Am I the only one that can use the Apple provided slider, slide it to the top, then wrap my headphones neatly and put them into a pocket in my bag and have them come out the same way they went in? I haven't had issues with tangled headphones for years now...
Not sure how well this will work when someone wraps their old hard drive based iPod (or brand new iPod classic) and wipes some bits on the drive...
That is a good point. We do not recommend using these with those models as the magnets would cause problems.
Looks like it works well if you wrap them right away, but I can envision it being worse than no magnets if you just toss them in your bag.
If you can secure the patent, sounds like licensing might be the way to go here. Competing on the quality of the headphone is an entirely different (and expensive) problem, crowded with a ton of established companies. And if the headphones you produce aren't of decent quality, my hunch is that people won't buy them b/c sound is going to trump the inconvenience of tangled wires.
They are currently patent-pending. We are working with a manufacturer who already produce headphones. They make a range of models from cheap, average quality headphones to expensive high quality models. We can incorporate this design into all of them.
Until wireless earbuds show up, this is my solution.
Until wireless earbuds show up, this is my solution.
I had a pair of these:
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off&...
But the headband was too heavy to do any running or anything in :(
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That is a good point. We do not recommend using these with those models as the magnets would cause problems.
Other commenters here seem to think that they wouldn't be a problem. I would find out definitively and say one way or the other on your product page. Geeks will worry about it.
I'm not sure that I'd want to buy custom earbuds just for this particular feature. As jsherry suggested, this is something that (IMO) would be better licensed to name-brand headphone manufacturers.