Three headphone cables approaches
Posted March 15, 2009 – 7:54 pm in: Interaction Design
What is the ideal cable length? Depends on where you use the headphones. If you use them at home, you probably want quite a long cable so you can connect it to your stereo and still be able to move around. If you mainly use headphones on the move, a long cable becomes messy and requires constant effort to untie jammed-up knots… The middle headphones in the picture has a special plastic object designed to avoid knots by wrapping the cable around it. This solves one issue but creates another which is where to put this plastic object… The right headphones has a telephone-like cable which is much shorter than the others but can be stretched. The cable is quite thick but seems to solve both problems in quite an elegant way.
