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We were excited to receive a neat little package from the folks at frog today previewing Sinch, a new magnetic solution for the madness of headphone cord chaos. A survey on any given day in New York City's subways reveals two main schools of thought when coming to storage of those pesky in-ear headphones: the wrapper and the stuffer. Wrappers carefully coil their headphone wires around their mobile devices only to return to a mess of tangles. Stuffers typically bury headphones in sidepockets and backpockets—I've witnessed innumerable stuffers fishing out headphones and unwittingly dredging up pens, packs of gum, jewelry and change from the dark depths of their bags.
frog has created a simple and straightforward design—an elastic band with a stretch-able hole to attach to the base plug and a set of magnets that keep the tangle of cords manageable and neat. The nice thing about Sinch is that you can feed all your wrapper urges by using your device as the core of the cord management system—when the headphones are plugged in, the cords are wrapped around the device and secured into place with the magnetized ends of the Sinch.
For all those stuffers, you can unplug your headphones from your mobile device after wrapping and stuff your bundled headphones into the dark place of your liking.
My only concern is that as a user with a thicker L-shaped base plug, the elastic hole on the Sinch bulges, taking away from the sleek aesthetic of the overall design. Check out the jump for more product pics!
Comments
Aren't magnets harmful to electronic hard drives and screens?? Or was that only to crt monitors?
Magnets are harmful for most hard drives and CRT screens but I think they do not do much to the solid-state/flash memory of most modern iPods touch and intelligent phones... My old iPod Classic would probably go kaput if I introduced it to the Sinch but it's still IMO a great little invention.
Do people not read anymore, on their site there's a page dedicated to all kinds of warnings to cover their backside... Yes, it does affect your compass, GPS and others, so you need to 'calibrate' you knowing, waving like a mad man in figure-8 to reset it, sounds like pain to me... Lastly, do not eat the magnets as it can kill you.
Does the magnet hold it to your iPod aswell? Looks kinda beefy for your pocket - magnets are a shame for something that looks this nice-
Alternatives worth a look - BudTrap.com much slicker, and Magneat.com for something a bit more fun.