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Shufflephones 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the status-symbology dept.

Photo_Designer writes "After hacking my first pair of headphones to accept an iPod Shuffle, I just couldn't keep my hands off my other set of headphones and hacked an iPod shuffle adapter inside them, too. This version also includes an all-new expansion jack which allows sharing your music on the go, plugging your Shuffle into a stereo with a patch cable (without removing it from the phones), and also allows the headphones to be used as regular phones with the shuffle removed or turned off."

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  1. Factory production? by TERdON · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting solution, but not very neat. Not having the cable for the player seems great. It would be more interesting to see factory-made headphones with included flash mp3 player. That would make a more fancy solution. However, I'm not sure that would really happen - most people who use headphones are rather nittpicky about the quality of them...

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  2. Re:It might sell... by ciroknight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree wholeheartedly. One of the most annoying parts about having an iPod is the headphone cable. Where I'm usually towing around my iBook, it gets entangled almost every time I take it off/put it on. I'd love to have a pair of headphones with a set of iPod buttons on the side of them, and with a built-in iPod Shuffle dock in the bottom (sorta so it would just slide up and plug into a female USB port inside). Sell 'em for $40-$50 bucks a pop and they'll sell like wildfire. Of course, all you'd have to do to steal one then would be nab someone's headphones.. and an option for a fullsized iPod would be rediculous..

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  3. Re:How come no-one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why would I put a song I didn't like on my shuffle?

  4. Re:Street cred? by Didion+Sprague · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Saying that this is no "hack" is like going into a muesem, pointing at the all-black canvas, and saying, "Hey, that's not art. I could do that."

    Point is, you *didn't* do it and someone else did.

    What, you paint a bunch of haystacks at sunset and that's art? But some guy's splotch painting *isn't* art?

    Says you.

    *shrug*

    The guy that did this, did it. Whether or not it's a "hack" (according to your definition) is beside the point.

  5. Re:Next Up by ebingo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    oh and you can do this only because it's an iPod Shuffle?