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The crazy thing about headphones, these classic little headphones known as in-ears, is that you put them in your jacket pocket for just a second and then spend five minutes untying the cord as thin as a thread.

It's pure magic.

And a curse.

In 2016, Apple introduced the AirPods, wireless headphones that look like electric toothbrush heads and that transmit the sound via Bluetooth.

And with that the disaster took its course.

As with so many inventions, one problem is solved, another created.

The tangle of cables has given way to the endless search for individual AirPods.

They slide reliably into cracks in sofas and dark handbag corners.

They fall between car seats and unfortunately also fit through manhole cover slots.

You cannot buy them individually.

After all, shortly after the AirPods, Apple introduced the AirPod-Strap, a band that almost turns wireless headphones into wired headphones again.

The AirPods from Apple are stowed in the small white box from Dior

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Last year, luxury fashion brands from Louis Vuitton to Dior designed mini designer handbags and boxes hanging on belt loops, in which the charging case for the headphones could be packaged in a stylish way (does not fit into a woman's pocket), Prada has now introduced its own AirPod straps.

Look like a dog leash, cost 180 euros.

The headphones are put into small neoprene straps, this model from Prada costs 180 euros

Source: Prada

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And because we are now with headphones: Today, chart music is produced in such a sub-complex way that it sounds good on the little plastic things.

No complex sound layers, many highs.

On music streaming platforms such as Spotify, the songs are then played back at a maximum of 320 kilobytes per second, so even the best hi-fi system is of no use, so if you want good sound, buy records again.

Even more "backward inventions"

The list of what we call reverse inventions is long.

When the electric car was developed, for example, it quickly became clear that a silent vehicle not only - for die-hard petrolheads at least - was less fun to drive, but could also be dangerous for other road users (not only because of the many headphones!).

So whole teams of sound designers from Audi to Tesla are working on the extra loud electric motor noise.

After cell phones, washing machines, car radios and ticket machines were freed from haptic buttons, touchscreen gloves and touchscreen pens followed.

Because everything now has a camera, there are sliding webcam covers for mobile phones, tablets or computers.

Zoom call with the boss: camera flap open, everything else: flap shut.

No more panic attacks when email scammers claim they have compromised, nude material.

Touchscreen and winter?

An exhausting combination

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Over the Christmas holidays, of course, Netflix is ​​watched comfortably on the sofa.

Or rather, the 287 trailers, because who can make a decision given the oversupply?

This is exactly why there has long been a video streaming alternative with Mubi, on which there are only 30 films.

It's as clear as it was when there were only three television programs.

There is currently a film called "The Magic Gloves".

Is it about the invention of touchscreen gloves?

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Source: Welt am Sonntag