In fact, if the designers of the iWatch and Google Glass can figure out a seamless way to work with earphones and mics, and these devices have their own SIM, who knows if smartphones as we know them will even be needed?
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One day, I was out in my garden attending to my sunflowers when a teenager passed by with his earphones hooked up, listening to his music.
Even pairing the earphones with your smartphone is made easier with the Zik.
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Fortunately, Japan's Science and Technology Agency has beavered away at this most first-world of problems with its Universal Earphones Project.
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After three years of research and development, Apple finally improves the earphones it ships with the iPhone and iPods.
Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses.
Vietnamese tech site Tinhte.vn has posted a video to YouTube of what is claimed to be the new earphones that will ship with the iPhone 5.
UE, in particular, has pitched itself as a high-end consumer brand thanks to a tie-up with Logitech, and the UE 900 earphones are amongst the nicest it offers short of any custom options.
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Ultimate Ears, a brand of Logitech, revolutionized the way artists perform music on stage with the creation of its custom fit professional earphones in 1995.
These relationships provide Future Sonics with the knowledge to produce healthier and safer professional earphones.
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After nearly 20 years of working with the most discerning ears in music, Ultimate Ears has set out to help change the way people experience the music they love with its range of critically acclaimed wireless speakers and earphones.
The music from your iPhone or iPod combined with a noise-cancelling headset beats the airline audio played through cheap earphones purchased onboard.
These new earphones were specifically designed to be a substantial upgrade from the headphones that come with your music player: more durability, better sound, and a chance to do real justice to your music. urBeats provide the premium sound quality that has become synonymous with the Beats by Dr. Dre brand.
The earphones arrive a couple of weeks later in a metal clamshell case that, along with colored earpieces, conceals what would otherwise look something like a pair of hearing aides.
Phan, along with my friend and commenter Marq Hwang, suggested ditching expensive and bulky noise-cancelling headphones in favor of smaller earphones that block noise by sealing off the ear canal.
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