Magneat: earphone cable management yo-yo style

Plain, love or skull?
Plain, love or skull?

Every now and again someone will design a product to fix a problem that we didn't even know we had. Sure, headphone cables get tangled up: it's a fact of life, and one that will eventually fix itself and go away when wireless technology takes over the world. For now, though, here's Magneat: the earphone cable management system.

How it works

It looks and works a bit like a yo-yo, which attaches to clothing via a magnet. Any excess headphone cable can then be wound away and locked off. That's it. It looks small, so we're guessing any heavy-duty headphone usage is out of the question.

Magneat

Magneat

Design wise, we like the 'I love music' theme. Why always the need to specify a type?

One Magneat will set you back $14.90 plus postage. If you're easily irritated, buy one here.

Magneat

Magneat

(Via: BoingBoing)

Tom Porter worked on MusicRadar from its mid-2007 launch date to 2011, covering a range of music and music making topics, across features, gear news, reviews, interviews and more. A regular NAMM-goer back in the day, Tom now resides permanently in Los Angeles, where he's doing rather well at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).