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Von Zipper Snow Muffs Headphones: One Less Thing To Worry About

Say you're Brian Lam, out there on the slopes of Tahoe, snowboarding as your iPhone drops the biggest beats since the Propellerheads' dropped Decksanddrumsandrockandroll. It sounds grand, but there's a logistical problem: You have goggles, plus the earmuffs your mom knitted for you, plus your (definitely not white) earbuds, all connected to your head using different straps, levers and pulleys. Von Zipper combines them all into one easy system: the $20 Snow Muffs/H-Phones will attach to most ski goggles—but particularly those that Von Zipper by coincidence also sells, for $60 to $160. [Product Page via Book of Joe]

10:34 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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workingonyourinvoice at 10:38 AM on 02/05/08
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That plug doesn't look very iPhone friendly. Nice concept though.
MikeBahooski at 10:44 AM on 02/05/08
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But where are my hamburger earmuffs???
discounteggroll at 10:46 AM on 02/05/08
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Blam wouldn't know what to do with 'muffs that close to his face

<3
Wilson Rothman at 10:49 AM on 02/05/08
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@WorkingOnYourInvoice: A $10 donation to the lovely people at Belkin or Griffin, and your problem will disappear! Well, if you don't look directly at the ugly gray adapter thingy, that is.
The Lab at 10:49 AM on 02/05/08
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When snowboarding I prefer to carry a boombox with a 7" LCD screen. Headphones are for old people.
workingonyourinvoice at 10:52 AM on 02/05/08
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@Wilson Rothman: I was looking at the reviews for those things on apple.com/shopping yesterday, and they're hilarious. They go so far as to call them obscene.
Escamotage at 10:54 AM on 02/05/08
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What ever happened to Propellerheads anyway?
Wilson Rothman at 11:37 AM on 02/05/08
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@Escamotage: I know, right? As far as I know, it was just that one masterpiece, then poof, though on occasion you do see a remix by them. I think mostly they produce.
nutbastard at 12:42 PM on 02/05/08
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These things are very cool, if not a little girly-looking.

While we're on the subject of headphones, anyone have recommendations for some really durable behind-the-neck style models? I've been using these:

[reviews.cnet.com]

Which are very cheap, have an elastic strain relief and a fiber-wrapped cord, not this exposed wimpy plastic BS, and while they do tend to last a few months, but lack the bass response of my sennheisers, (PMX-100) which promptly broke 4 days after purchasing them.

Anyone?!
nutbastard at 12:49 PM on 02/05/08
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I bet i could break these muff cans in about 2 hours... WHY CANT ANYONE MAKE SHIT LIKE IT'S 1941 ANYMORE??
lpranal at 12:54 PM on 02/05/08
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@nutbastard: I believe your answer to be in your question.

To summarize:

Because it's not 1941, anymore.
bioslug at 01:23 PM on 02/05/08
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41? Shit wasn't so great.
nutbastard at 01:28 PM on 02/05/08
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@bioslug:
I have a lighter from the late '30s, forget what the name is, starts with an R maybe, but the important thing is the patent number is like 6 digits. Still works. It's a complicated sheetmetal squeeze lever system that pops the top of and sparks the flint when you squeeze the sides of the lighter. I want indestructable gear!!!
ANoel at 02:06 PM on 02/05/08
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@nutbastard:
Hear ya go... [cgi.ebay.com]
Wilson Rothman at 02:10 PM on 02/05/08
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@ANoel: That is one impressive—and topical!—discovery.
ANoel at 02:18 PM on 02/05/08
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@Wilson Rothman:
well, thanks, WC...
Some people give their 2 cents, I give a buck!
(especially to someone who contributes as much as da Bastigue does)
ANoel at 02:19 PM on 02/05/08
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um, WR
nutbastard at 02:29 PM on 02/05/08
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@ANoel:
thanks, but i forgot to tell you they need to be slightly less conspicuous.

I wonder if those cans even work anymore... you'd be the coolest DJ ever if you threw some nice Koss cans in there.
nutbastard at 02:31 PM on 02/05/08
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But i think the real question is, why the hell were the russians making leather flight helmets in childrens sizes?
ANoel at 02:32 PM on 02/05/08
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@nutbastard:
O shit, sorry dude, I thought you wanted the Segway Polo model.
workingonyourinvoice at 02:38 PM on 02/05/08
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@nutbastard: Their super secret plot to kidnap gary coleman, send him back in time, and use him as a fighter pilot.
ANoel at 02:41 PM on 02/05/08
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@nutbastard:
Space cadets/monkeys - these would go with the helmet?
[www.boingboing.net]
nutbastard at 02:45 PM on 02/05/08
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@ANoel:
damn man, that's... pretty fucking funny actually.

goddamn people remembering things about me....
nutbastard at 02:46 PM on 02/05/08
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@ANoel:
you should work for stumbleupon.
nutbastard at 04:57 PM on 02/05/08
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FIXED MY SENNHEISERS!

cool...