Button 2.0 Fastens Shirts, Secures Earbuds
I will be ordering a Button 2.0 for every single one of my shirts. I will even be sewing them onto my t-shirts in order to make them more useful. Why? As you can see in the image above, Button 2.0 is a simple upgrade to boring old Button 1.0 which turns it into a grippy place to clip your iPhone’s headphone cable.
Button 2.0 was designed by Shapeways user Egant, and is 3-D printed to order for just $3.28 a pop. The plastic disks have a groove on one side to clip any 2mm cable in place, a fairly standard diameter for headphones.
It’s an amazingly simple idea, and I love that it is also a 3-D printed object. It also makes me realize that I could just wrap the cord around any old v1.0 button for similar effect.
But I have been a headphone wearer for too long to be fooled by this admittedly excellent idea. I have snagged my cable too many times, and had it either jerk the buds from my ears, or the iPod from my pocket, or just destroy the headphone cable.
So I know that the only smart place for a headphone cable is to run it inside your clothes, from jeans pocket to the collar or neck of your shirt.
- Source Shapeways
- Via Parislemon
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 
