Shufflephones 2.0

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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[LittleGuernica]

Thats looks pretty useless...no easy access to controls and the comfort of a plastic stick to your ear blocking the headphones.. Looks like a great time waster though.. Next up, he will mod a Mac mini into his beard, which will then monitor the bacteria accumulation in it and send an email when it's time to take a shower..

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[thatnerdguy]

but its an ipod shuffle: the whole point is that you can just press play and leave it. That's what I do. You dont need too much access to controls.

"Groudn down screwdriver"

[lisaparratt]

I know I'm only a girl, and therefore stereotypically bad with tools, but isn't a ground down screwdriver called an awl?

Re:iPod in the headphones?

[MP3Chuck]

You get the walk down the street, singing along with headphones that don't appear to be plugged into anything!

That's nothing

[zecg]

I have hacked my girlfriend to accept me hacking all her stuff to accept iPod Shuffle.

Re:iPod in the headphones?

[That's Unpossible!]

Yes, on one side you will only hear half of the music, due to the iPod shuffle blocking the speaker.

Street cred?

[BrK]

How exactly do old-ass headphones give you "street cred".

Not to mention this whole "hack" is so non-Apple. There is no "style" to it, and it's cumbersome. Not to mention that the Shuffle in one of the ear cups probably affects the sound quality a bit.

I'm also a little tired of the "hack" moniker being thrown around so readily. Soldering a couple of wires together is not a "hack" in most cases, it's just... well... soldering.

Take the shuffle apart, integrate its electronics into the headphones, and port the controls and I/O to the outside, keeping the same layout so that the headphones have a "hint of shuffle" to them (maybe even paint the headphones a nice eggshell white). THAT would be closer to a hack, IMO.