{"id":1445,"date":"2011-05-12T07:57:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:40:05","slug":"my-take-on-the-credit-card-earbud-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/my-take-on-the-credit-card-earbud-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"My Take on the Credit Card Earbud Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5800709\/turn-an-old-credit-card-into-the-perfect-earbud-holder\">Lifehacker<\/a> they posted a forehead-smack idea.  Take a credit card, cut it up a bit.  You&#8217;re left with a free, light, earbud holder.  I&#8217;ve got a bunch of old cards lying around, so I made one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/38917611@N08\/5712956362\/\" title=\"Bud Holder - Theirs by br3ttb, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2683\/5712956362_024c861ffa.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Bud Holder - Theirs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I Didn&#8217;t like it.  My design grievances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You wrap in the short direction, which means more wrapping to get the job done<\/li>\n<li>Having the earbuds stored on either side means you need to put in each bud individually<\/li>\n<li>It takes just as long to unwrap as it does to wrap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It needed some work to compete with my <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/152499\/keep-headphone-wires-from-getting-tangled\">current method<\/a>. The beauty of using cards is that they&#8217;re easy to work with and plentiful (in my house at least.) It only took about an hour (7-10 iterations) to settle on a winner.  Meet my new earbud holder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/38917611@N08\/5712395251\/\" title=\"Bud Holder - Mine by br3ttb, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3468\/5712395251_8673cd2042.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Bud Holder - Mine\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/38917611@N08\/5712956332\/\" title=\"Bud Holder - Mine by br3ttb, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3293\/5712956332_8cc2990056.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Bud Holder - Mine\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The earbud slots are wide and next to eachother, so you can get the buds in quickly with one motion<\/li>\n<li>You wrap the long way, so you&#8217;re done in half the time<\/li>\n<li>The way the plug is clipped ensures that the wrap stays put, but&#8230;<\/li>\n<li> Because the wrap isn&#8217;t in channels, it slides right off once the plug is detached.  WAY faster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UPDATE:  I went through a few more iterations and came up with <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/earbud-wrap-business-card\/\">an improved design<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on Lifehacker they posted a forehead-smack idea. Take a credit card, cut it up a bit. You&#8217;re left with a free, light, earbud holder. I&#8217;ve got a bunch of old cards lying around, so I made one. I Didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/my-take-on-the-credit-card-earbud-holder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanical","tag-earbud-holder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7179,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brettbeauregard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}