Quick Tip: Keeping Earbuds Un-Tangled
Written on June 27, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 14 people have commented
Any iPod owner knows that the earbuds cable gets tangled very easily. I can’t claim ownership of this great tip, but don’t recall where I first heard it long ago. Anyhow, it’s very simple to do, essentially giving the “Rock on!” hand gesture, and looping the cord figure-8 wise around your extended fingers. I took this as an opportunity to try out the video service, Vimeo . (Viddler kept erroring out - grrr) Hope you find the tip useful!
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#1 Brian Warren says:That’s a pretty untangled way for sure; however, I’ve found this way to work even better.
Figured I’d try vimeo too.
#2 Contra says:Why so complicated? The Apple earbuds have a slider builtin, where the two earbuds connect. Just slide it up to the earbuds and enjoy your untanglable earbuds.
#3 Josh Pigford says:Look, I really have created the best way. Don’t deny it: http://vimeo.com/223427
#4 Brian Warren says:I created an even BETTER video of how to wrap headphones, with glamorous music.
http://vimeo.com/223505
#5 Mrad says:That’s clever for sure - but I’d have a hell of a time remembering. Still, it’s fun to see though.
#6 Neil Anderson says:You guys are amazing! Thanks! Now if only I could remember where I’ve left the blasted things after putting my iPod on the Hi-Fi.
#7 Nick Santilli says:@neil - my next tip will show you how to keep your HiFi untangled…
#8 Charles says:These tricks would work a lot better if you slid the little slider up to the headphone end. A lot of people call this an “earphone cable shortener” and think it’s for shortening the loose cables when the earphones are in your ears, but it really is intended to keep the earphones together when not in use. Most of the the problems with tangled cables comes from the headphone wires, moving the little slider up to the headphone end will eliminate that.
#9 Colin Devroe says:Hit me up with the problems you were having with Viddler, I’ll see what was up.
Oh. And great tip! I’m using it right now!
#10 Contra says:Exactly Charles. Like I said, Apple already thought about that.
#11 Rachel says:That’s a good way of keeping them untangled. I will have to try it for sure. I love my ipod. Love it so much I had to get another battery. needbattery.com has them for cheap with a 1 year warranty.
#12 Frederik says:check out this ‘home grown’ solution using 3m cable clips with easy release adhesive tapes:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3086178965711730635&hl=en
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