{"id":12912,"date":"2013-09-22T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12912"},"modified":"2013-08-27T17:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:40:24","slug":"iluv-earphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/iluv-earphones\/","title":{"rendered":"iLuv Earphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing a review about that goes against the spirit of Cool Tools in a way. While I love these headphones, the price is very reasonable, they aren&#8217;t necessarily &#8220;the best&#8221; of their kind. What I really want to evangelize is the idea of the flat headphone cable.<\/p>\n<p>I love earbuds. I hate dealing with tangled cords. I would stuff my headphones in my bag, and they would come out in a Gordian knot. All the solutions <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5930624\/the-definitive-guide-to-wrapping-your-headphones-without-losing-your-mind\">proffered<\/a> seemed just as labor intensive as untangling them afterwards, involved wrapping them so tightly I couldn&#8217;t help but think it was going to damage the wire or give it a memory (so it would revenge-tangle itself when I turned my head for a moment), or both.<\/p>\n<p>Flat cables don&#8217;t &#8220;feel the need&#8221; to twist, and so drop them in the bottom of your backpack, pull them out and they&#8217;re ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>I simultaneously bought MEElectronics flat cable earbuds and the iLuv on Amazon. I didn&#8217;t like the former as much; weird static-y shocks when I walked on my treadmill; the latter have the remote to pause\/play\/skip ahead, turn volume up and down and take calls w\/integral mic. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed flat cables featured on SkullCandy and other brands; I&#8217;m sure an audiophile can buy $300 noise-canceling flat cable headphones. The main point for me is that the no-tangle principal worked great, look for it, then figure out what else you need and go from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat cables mean no more tangles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12914,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912\/revisions\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}