Retro Headphone With iPhone-Friendly Features
I-Mego’s Throne headphones will bring a big dose of retro styling to the sides of your head. While they pack almost every modern piece of tech you need, they look more like those old-style mics used by radio-announcers (radio announcers in movies at least) and blues crooners.
Specs-wise, you get a 1.2 meter cable (around four feet), a pair of 40mm drivers (which the product page says gives “strong bass”), an inline microphone for Siri-ing and phone calls, and an on-head weight of “0.62.” I’m assuming that this is 620 grams, as the rest of the specs are in modern-day metric. For those of you across the pond, that comes out at like 2.621 cups.
But this is really about the styling, and I can’t decide whether these are 1950s future-chic or 1980s retro-Cylon. But who cares, really? At $140, you could pick up a few pairs of Panasonic’s awesome sounding (and equally retro) RP-HTX7 cans.
Still, if you’re ready to shoot a remake of Metropolis and you need some ears for your False Maria costume, $140 might be pretty cheap.
- Source i-mego
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Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
