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Would you wear a Shuffle on your head?
CNET's Crave has the scoop on these "wireless" headphones forthcoming from Arriva. As you can see from the Photoshop mockup, the headphones integrate a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle dock in the middle to achieve the "wireless" effect. I'm guessing you'd be the subject of a few double-takes walking down the street with a Shuffle apparently embedded in the back of your skull, but this looks like it might be useful for exercise, etc. CNET quotes Arriva's founder as saying "Apple knows what we are up to and have not said anything except we can make our headphones in all the Shuffle colors, which we are."Arriva has not yet announced a price or shipping date (though "hopefully by this summer").[via Engadget]
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.
