Steampunk Headphones!

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Are you tired of your regular ol’ headphones?  Here’s a great DIY showing you how to make Steampunk Headphones.

To construct this headset, I started with items commonly found at home improvement stores. I wanted to use mostly copper or brass parts, at least for the parts that are exposed. Unfortunately, copper and brass are heavy (compared to plastic). I use a headset frequently so I didn’t want to end up with something too heavy. The end look has an industrial flavor because of the holes drilled to lighten it. Although, I still think it fits in the Steampunk genre.

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Peanuts speakers are peanut-sized stereo portable speakers.  They are small but great for people on the go who need to take a break from headphones from time to time.

Bird Electron announced its new peanut shaped speakers for DAP, the EZ16YG… This new stereo speakers feature two 30mm Driver. This device measure 108×50×100(mm), weighs 25g, and cost around 25€.

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If you can’t drink it, it’s not beer but if you can talk to it, it could be a Budweiser telephone. (or just a beer bottle and you got too drunk)

Too bad, the beer bottle isn’t real glass, making it too easy to tell it’s not a real beer bottle.

• Very Vivid Budweiser beer shape phone.
• Beer Telephone is prefect as a decoration in your bedroom / living-room / bar-table / computer desk / pub / snack store
• Last Number Redial.
• The functions of “*” and “#” button are not the same as usual telephones. The”*” button is for Redial, and the “#” button is for Pause. There are no usual “*” and “#” button in the Phone.
• Enter your desired numbers, suppose the line is busy, just press the reset button and press”*” then the last number will be redialed automatically
• When rings, pick up your phone, you will be incontact with your caller
• Just stand the phone upright on any flat surface to hang up, lift to get dial tone.
• Both Headphones and mike are attached on the body of the Budweiser bottle.

via engadget

Here’s a cool DIY headphone.  I can feel ya because I listen to music all day long too.  As soon as I am off the computer, I immediate switch onto my MP3 or iPod.

Since I listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks throughout the day while I’m working, I adapted a pair of normal safety earphones for speakers, and added a vintage look. I cut the outside portion of the cups off, replaced with a curved flat sheet of plastic -over which I mounted the grill (from an old record player) and the cork which I sanded to shape. Then I painted the rest of the shell green, and installed some $50 drivers. I still use them daily.

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Here’s an interesting concept belt speakers from Soft Values.  I don’t know why I’d use instead of a regular headphones but still, kudos for a great concept.

The Soft Values Portable Speaker sits in a small, ball-like form that encloses a soft, fabric sock and a strap. This sock will unfold out of the speaker and cover it up to give the Soft Values Portable Speaker a nice and soft feel. The strap obviously comes in handy to lug this little sound box around. Though we don’t have too many details about the speaker, a Bluetooth connection for streaming music wirelessly would be a nice touch. This speaker might feature a rechargeable lithium ion batteries and charging it may be thorough a USB port. If these nifty features make it to the Soft Values Portable Speaker, it would be one concept worth watching out for, although the design seems a little too girly for our liking.

via thedesignblog

There is nothing worse than when you are listening to music when the weather is cold, windy or both, you get to hear the fantastic sounds, but in the mean time your ear lobes are getting frost bite.

But thankfully there is some good news this winter, for JVC has come up with the 180s Ear warmer Headphones, these will plug into your music player to let you hear music and at the same tine keep your ears nice a warm.

Priced at $60

Source [Coolest Gadgets]

These hats are called Tooks, they beanies in style but they have a secret, built in headphones for your iPod or other digital music device.

I know what you are thinking, what about washing the hat, well they have that covered too, the headphones are removable, so the hats can be washed no problem at all, which is a bit of a bonus. Not just for washing but for changing the music player.

If your require a spare pair of headphones, they can be bought for just $12.50.

Comes in Black, navy blue, gray, brown, red and pink. The beanies cost $24.99 including the headphones.

Source [Chip Chick]