I’ve always been frustrated with headphones. They’re uncomfortable and awkward. I’ve tried big clunky headsets, light foamy ones, over the ear and around the back of the head ones, and plenty of different in the ear ones. Have tried headsets for cellphones as well as music players, and standard telephones. Have yet to find one I can stand to use.
The biggest problem is the cord. It tethers you to the device you’re using, it dangles there annoyinly, it gets tangled up when you store it. So now we’ve got infrared and rf and even bluetooth, and either they aren’t built in to the device I want to use, or they’re bulky or line-of-sight. Can’t we just pick a decent standard and stick with it? Or make the base unit trancievers modular?
Then of course there are standards. I’d like to be able to use the same headset on my cellphone and my mp3 player and my work phone – preferably without switching anything. This of course means that it’s actually a headphone/headset combo, which shouldn’t be too tough. When I get a phonecall, mute the mp3 and let me answer the call – maybe even without be having to reach for the actual phone, as in my earlier idea, just saying “hello?” would answer it.