Introducing the Headbuddy… a sports band for your Apple headphones…

Apple’s headphones are great. Stylish, iconic, there when you need them. But we like to run and our Apple headphones don’t.So we went about creating a simple and affordable solution that meant we could use our existing Apple headphones in a more effective way while running.

The result was the Headbuddy. Just loop your apple headphones into the sports band and you’re ready to go. The earbuds are held securely in such a way that retains the sound quality whilst providing a surprisingly comfortable fit, one that is arguably more comfortable than the traditional way of using earbud headphones.

Works great with the new Nano or shuffle. Just clip on and go.

The Headbuddy is made from super strong, flexible, polyamide plastic. It is 3D printed in this material and each one is printed specially when ordered. The channeled design allows the cable of the Apple headphones to wrap around the frame and the earpiece slots hold the ear buds tightly. The flexible design fits overs the ears and holds snug to your head feeding the remainder of the cable down your back or over your shoulder. 

The Headbuddy is specifically designed for iPod and iPhone headphones. Others might work, we haven’t tried all of them yet!

You can buy the Headbuddy here on Shapeways

Notifications

Why is it not possible to turn off Notifications in on single swoop?! I usually used to activate airplane mode when going to bed so as to get a good nights sleep without being waken up by spambots etc. I could go and turn off push email and then turn off a bunch of others like Facebook, twitter, what’sapp groups, instagram, foursquare, chess with friends, messenger and a few others but this would take ages. Basically i want to keep my phone on now at night because there have been a few occasions when I have missed important calls because of airplane mode.. So now I want to be able to quickly switch notifications off. You could do it on previous iOS versions, why not now? Also what would be great would be something like profiles that you used to have on your old Nokia, only here you could set certain notifications to only be switched on on certain profiles. Ok, that’s my rant. I hate/love technology…

Nanolet Unboxing reblog

Originally blogged on curvecreative.blogspot.com

Hey, we just got a box of new Nanolets today in all the pretty colours! Check out our unboxing video!

Nanolet – A 3D printed Bracelet for the iPod Nano…

Introducing the Nanolet. A 3D printed iPod Nano Bracelet. Designed as an alternative to all the other watch straps available for the Nano, the Nanolet is a one part 3D printed product.

Get one for yourself here from shapeways

The Nanolet has been getting a lot of attention recently, you can check it out here

MY EDC – An everyday bag of an industrial designer

Recently stumbled across this blog EVERYDAYCARRY … (when i say stumbled across, I didn’t actually STUMBLE across it, I think I was actually reading ZITE at the time (which is awesome by the way) and there was a featured post from EDC there). Anyway, browsed through this blog a bit, noticing everyones attraction to knives and guns… but ignoring that over compensation it was very interesting to see the things that people carry on a day to day basis and what they consider preparedness. Especially as an industrial designer this was interesting. Anything to do with people’s habits and things that people do with products and what products they use interests me. But anyway, I realised I was quite similar in terms of preparedness as people on this blog. I have previously done a “What’s in my bag” before, a while ago… here. Thought i’d do a new one, going along the theme of EDC and thinking about the posts on EDC where most people post only things they carry in their pockets or on their person. I have divided the image up and have a section of on my person and then the rest in the bag. I had the camera set up  so i shot a quick video of assembling everything into a nice neat order. Maybe you should do one of these pictures too, it’s always interesting to empty out your bag and see whats hiding.