Arriva prepping "wireless" iPod shuffle headphones

While other companies rely on newfangled technologies like Bluetooth to make their headphones wireless, Arriva has taken a slightly different tact, choosing instead to simply increase the proximity of the player to the headphones. That proposition is made somewhat more reasonable by the diminutive size of the 2G iPod shuffle, which Arriva's still-in-development headphones are specially designed to attach to. Given that the company admits to a bit of Photoshop work in the image above, however, we wouldn't bet on them being available anytime soon, although the company is promising to produce 'em in all the shuffle's various colors.

[Cardbored @ May 2nd 2007 7:54PM]

Cool idea... Surprised no one thought of this sooner...

[LukeA @ May 2nd 2007 7:54PM]

That actually looks pretty cool.

[Fuzz @ May 2nd 2007 8:06PM]

Lobot is unimpressed

http://alexplorer.net/guitar/text/guitar/lobot.jpg

[phoomp @ May 2nd 2007 8:25PM]

Pretty risky designing around a product that has only existed for 2 generations, and has been completely different in both versions.

[mikeytrend @ May 2nd 2007 8:36PM]

Those headphones look street style meaning the iPod would be placed in the back of your head.

Although the idea is very cool and innovative.
People buying these in high crime areas are making themselves great targets by wearing their iPod on their body.
And if they are in fact street style now they're wearing their gadget out of their sight.

I'd fear for my iPod.

[Mike @ May 2nd 2007 8:56PM]

Wonderful idea, I would actually consider getting a shuffle just to have a (good) product like this. However, considering the above "photoshoped" product isn't even remotely convincing (I mean BAD), I wonder if they really have the skill to pull something this /complicated/ off. I mean, a forth grader could have made that image. If they don't have the in-house skill to make a decent render of their product, do they have the in-house skill to actually produce it?

[blackcaesar @ May 2nd 2007 9:28PM]

needs a remote. the controls are useless there.

[Bambino @ May 3rd 2007 12:04AM]

I hadn't noticed it was a chop til you mentioned it, Mike.

I suck at life, I fell for a bad photoshop...

[Matthew @ May 3rd 2007 12:16AM]

I'd rather it in my pocket.

[Nick @ May 3rd 2007 1:15AM]

It's a different TACK, not TACT. Why do I see this all the time? A tack is an alternate course in a zigzag, or a course of action. Tact is adriotness in managing the feelings of persons.

[Fabulo @ May 3rd 2007 1:25AM]

They did it in the 80's, that was a boombox on your shoulder glued to your ears... oh wait!

[Dustin @ May 3rd 2007 1:27AM]

please everyone, stay inside your homes. The grammar police have the neighborhood on lockdown.

[JkEw @ May 3rd 2007 1:42AM]

@ Dustin LMAO!!

[Earnest @ May 3rd 2007 11:32AM]

Been there, done that, should have filed for the patent.

http://bobbydrake007.livejournal.com/2005/03/28/

[Nick @ May 3rd 2007 11:40AM]

Using the wrong word is not a grammatical error, doofus. It just means something other than what was intended. Grammatical errors are logical errors. Using the wrong word is some sort of epistemological error.

[shaun @ May 3rd 2007 2:45PM]

Monster's got something similar coming out.

http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=4449

[jfls @ May 3rd 2007 3:27PM]

Mike:

Yes, because as we all know, engineering and art both involve the exact same skill sets.

[Jerome @ May 4th 2007 12:02AM]

very cool idea!

You can see that is was created in photoshop, look under the ipod, were the shdow is cut, the light grey paint that is to hide the object that hold's the ipod in the air :P

I think it is a original idea but I think it is going to be annoying to always go behind your head to change song!