What makes this post stand out is the lack of gadgetry involved, however one can’t dismiss the ingenuity contained therein. While most of us either buy some cord accessory or or just wind up their headphone cables willy-nilly, this person put enough thought into it to come up with a damn good solution using nothing at all except the ipod and the headphones.

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At CES, I managed to pick up a pair of NEMO headphones to review for the site. NEMO is a company that’s been selling its headphones in Japan and is making its first bid into the US marketplace.

These headphones aren’t your standard headphones, as you can tell by the image. For one thing, they’re not quite noise-cancelling, but they’re at least noise-blocking. In addition, the headphones work a little differently. As the product rep explained it to me, the sounds from the headphones are actually being projected away from the center of the ear. With the sound waves not rushing into the ear canal, you are actually listening to the reflection. The sound then resonates within the ear canal to produce extended base as well as the surround sound effect.

So, what’s good about these headphones? Well, the noise-blocking capabilities are very effective. I took them around on Syracuse’s Centro bus system, and in the back they have an extremely noisy heating/cooling unit back there; bad enough that you’ve got to shout over it to possibly understand another person 2 seats away. The headphones blocked out the fans to a weak hum, and I could enjoy my music in peace.

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