These Sundries Playbrick earphones from Elecom are not official Lego merchandise, but that doesn’t make them any less cool.
They are available from the middle of October (next week) in Japan, and it looks like they will be a Japan-only product for a while.
Price: $23 [Elecom via CrunchGear]
Sony Ericsson are claiming to have made the first motion-activated earphones. A brief run down on their functionality: if you put the earphones in, music playback starts automatically, take one out and it the song you are listening to will go on pause.
The earphones make use of capacitive sensing technology; your ears are turned into an electrical conduit, thus a circuit is created by putting the buds in your ears and broken by taking one out. It is clever, but not life-changing. No word yet on price or availability. [Crave]
The E-Blue Speaker set is a has a cute little Bluetooth speaker option for the iPhone from Brando. It allows wireless streaming of music from your iPhoneand allegedly gets 8 hours of life from a rechargeable battery. (more…)
The Scosche TapStick provides an easy workaround for the iPod Shuffle’s annoying buttonless design, by incorporating functional buttons into the front of a rather attractive case, giving the same control over the Shuffle as Apple’s proprietary earphones.
Price: $29 [Geeky Gadgets via Slippery Brick]
These cute wiener dog earphones have one end of the dog going in one ear and the other end coming out of the other, giving the appearance that a tiny rabid, zombie dachshund is burrowing through your brain.
Price: $12.95 [Patina Stores via Nerd Approved]
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