Headphones Magnetic Clip

When I wear headphones I find that a slight exidental pull on the wire tends to irritate my ears. I wear in ear head phones on my motorbike under neath my helmet and wear the wire under my cloathing where it tends to get caugh a little. I have seen headphones that hook a string around the neck with a clip so any tugging on the cord pulls on the neck, but I though the design could be greatly improved with a few neodimium magnets instead of the fidgety plastik clip. Pros: - no pulling on the ears - the clip is easy to operate even with gloves. it snaps shut in proximity. - a strong exidental or deliborate pull will still open the clip and dislodge the headphones without ripping the wire. - Clip strength can be customized by adding or removing a couple of additional magnets or replacing with a different shape (eg disk versus spheres) or grade quality. - The joint is free to rotate which avoids some twisting of the wires. Cons: - Magnets may stick to things like keys when you have them in your poket.

Any existing set of headphones can be modified as those above, however I hope that in the near future this will be a standard selling point for quality retail headphones and I hope the firt one to pick up the idea makes a million (well maybe $100,000). To make a prototype I used (4mm x 1.5cm) heatshtink and a niodimum sphere magnets 5mm for each side of the clip. The speaker whire simply does a U-turn inside the heatshrink and i wraped some wire around it to give it some bulk around the U-turn so that it does no slip out. Two shperes makes a fairly weak clip, so I threw in cube as well in the photo above. Make sure the magnets are properly alligned before sealing the heatshrink.

The magnets I previously bought from ebay (the pheres were $50 for 1080 pieces)