Jan 24 2008500XL Earbud Speakers May Hurt Your Ears
The 500XL Earbud Speakers were designed to be 500 times the size of normal iPod earbuds. I think they're just a conceptual product design by Fred & Friends, and thus don't exist in the real world yet (and may never). According to the company:
How great will these look on your desktop alongside your mp3 player or PC? 500XL includes a built-in amp and 3-way power - it runs on batteries; you can connect it to your PC’s USB port with the supplied cord; or plug it into the wall with a generic power supply (not included). The stand-up, peggable clamshell packaging really makes a statement.
Now as a person with unusually large ears, I appreciate where they're going with this product. Unfortunately I just took some measurements and I'm going to have to hold out for the 750XL's to ensure a snug fit.
500XL Speakers; iPod Earbuds 500 TImes The Size Of The Original [uberreview]
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Reader Comments
1. damn luddites - January 24, 2008 12:13 PM
I'll wait for the 500 times larger ipod to go with it. I like to keep things in proportion. Proportion to my enormous feet and hands, wink, wink.
2. Mysterious M - January 24, 2008 12:20 PM
You know what they say about guys with big feet - they cheat on their taxes. . .
AND they wear big shoes.
3. JustBuzzed - January 24, 2008 12:23 PM
Of all the things that I would like 500 times normal size... ipod earbuds aren't even in the top 100.
http://theunsoberlife.com
4. damn luddites - January 24, 2008 12:39 PM
never heard that big feet leads to cheating on taxes. now I'll have to remember to hide my shoe size from the IRS
5. stuey - January 24, 2008 12:49 PM
Look at the guy and the ear buds, lol its photoshoped.
they took a picture of a laptop, a guy sitting, the earbuds, and the room. Then pasted it all together. LOL
6. damn luddites - January 24, 2008 12:54 PM
stuey - what part of "conceptual product design" didn't you understand?
7. stuey - January 24, 2008 12:57 PM
I understand the doing it with the earbuds, but they couldn't have a guy sitting at a real live desk, in front of a real live laptop? They had to get a guy to pose in a break room at some shanty shack then photoshop him into a pottery barn set with a image stolen from apple.com?
NAY
8. damn luddites - January 24, 2008 1:12 PM
maybe the guy lives at pottery barn, and the pic is more realistic than you thought. at least they didn't use those cardboard boxes painted to look like computers.
9. Mysterious M - January 24, 2008 1:31 PM
that dude is stoned
he can barely hold his coffee cup
10. guate6 - January 24, 2008 1:43 PM
I'm sorry, but the guy in the picture is FAKE.
11. Adam - January 24, 2008 1:53 PM
Nice to see Josh Hartnett getting back to work doing adverts after being eclipsed by Heath Ledger.
12. guate6 - January 24, 2008 3:25 PM
Heath Ledger: RIP
13. Ben A. Fleck - January 25, 2008 10:46 AM
Btw: these are more like 15-20x as big as normal earbuds,,,
14. damn luddites - January 25, 2008 12:32 PM
Ben - depends which measurement is being used - diameter, area, volume. if a regular ear bud is 3/4 inch diameter (just guessing on that number), then I'd say the one pictured are about 60-70 x the surface area (the speaker surface).
15. kyle - January 6, 2009 12:34 PM
there are overly large ipod earbuds available at urban outfitters, they are just portable speakers that look like earbuds.....
16. Naterator - March 29, 2009 8:23 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max took Baja to the drive in restaurant, and the ribs they gave him were so big the car flipped over.
17. Danielle - May 19, 2009 8:15 PM
my boyfriend got me some from urbanoutfitters for xmas. They work really good but you have to keep them plugged into a computer or the wall because they suck battery life like crazy. I carried them to work and the fresh newly opened batteries lasted about 4 hours