February 25, 2010
Invisible (iPod) Touch
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2010 Apart from the mega sales, what’s the one very obvious aspect that the iPod, iPhone and (soon, for sure) iPad all have in common? Yep: a booming after-sales market in costly accessories. Naturally, being unreconstructed cynics, we can see most of them for the baubles they are—diamond-studded iPhone […]
By Metropolis
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on February 2010
Apart from the mega sales, what’s the one very obvious aspect that the iPod, iPhone and (soon, for sure) iPad all have in common? Yep: a booming after-sales market in costly accessories.
Naturally, being unreconstructed cynics, we can see most of them for the baubles they are—diamond-studded iPhone case, anyone?—but TDK’s new i-centric headphones stand out for actually being useful.
The ¥17,800 TH-WR700 cans come with a dongle that plugs into the iPhone/iPod’s audio socket for beaming choons to your ears in a wire-free fashion. TDK has avoided Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for a technology called Kleer, which it says is cleaner and less prone to interference.
While the dongle draws power from the player, two triple-As in the headphones provide up to 40 hours of listening time. Oh, and up to four sad and lonely pals can connect to a single iPod at once.
