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Wired headphones had the same benefit... Walk away too far and your phone is either yanking the buds out of your ears, or falling off whatever surface it was on, holding onto the cable for dear life.
The law of wires states that if there is a doorknob for it to be caught on, it will be caught on the doorknob
If you need radios to replace a meter of cabling on the same object - a person - you need to find an architect and apologize. They like Lego, so bring a small gift.
Cables catching on doorknobs? Never had it, never seen it, never heard of it; not even in the walkman decades.
Will a cable save my walkman from falling into the ocean when I lean over a stanchion to check on my diver and not cost me a yellow walkman and a new copy of orphan? Can confirm it will not. But neither will the radios.
I still use wired earbuds sometimes. I've gotten them caught on doorknobs plenty whenever I forget to clip the wire to my shirt. Still prefer them over Bluetooth ones. Wired earbuds don't run out of battery or randomly lose connection. I also remember a number of my friends citing their earbuds getting caught as a reason for switching to Bluetooth ones. It's not unheard of.
On the flipside, the rate at which I forget my phone in a different room has increased significantly since switching to wireless headphones...
Easy fix. Tie a string between your phone and headphones.
Heey, maybe make it multiple wires, have it act as a backup transmission system in case the BT fails!
You sir/ma'am are a jeanieus
All we need to do is patent that shit as distinct from wired headphones ("it's just a backup system, bro, not the main mode of transmission!"), then sell it for ten times its production costs apiece (we'll outsource to a Freer™ country, of course!)
Yes, but not always.
I was messing around in the garage, and put my phone down in the little gap below the windscreen wipers on my car. I forgot it there, hopped in the car, it paired, and away I went. Fortunately I habitually check my pockets, and I noticed it about 3 kms down the road, and before I got on the freeway.
I had a very similar thing happen where my buddy left his wallet and phone on the roof and we took off. The phone slipped down into the gap between the trunk and rear window if his Charger, so it connected just fine. We got about 5 miles down the road and stopped at a gas station before we went out on a 5 hour road trip. We found the phone stuck but had to go back and fortunately found his black wallet at night in a grass section before we had left our neighborhood. There were a couple dollar bills had flipped out and those were bright enough with light that we spotted it.
My mate had the same issue with his car keys. On the roof, he shut the boot, it slid down and jammed between the boot and the window.
Unfortunately, he didn't have keyless go, and couldn't open the car either, so we were quite stuck. Ended up using a coat hanger to pull it out luckily.
Unrelated to this OG topic, but I was going on a snowboarding trip a few years ago and got a rental car via Turo, which is basically air bnb for vehicles. I met the owner at the airport and I took off after everything was loaded. 30 some minutes late I get to resort, turn off the vehicle and start getting dressed to hit the slopes. I realized I didn't have the key, so we called the guy and he still had it. Since the vehicle was running, we were able to leave with no issue. He met us at the mountain to drop off the key.
I had a similar experience another time on a snowboard trip, where I went down to the vehicle in the morning to warm it up and scrape the windows. I went back in inside grabbed my stuff and stopped at the gas station about a mile down the road. I noticed a light that said no key fob on the dash and thankfully without turning the car off, went back to the hotel and found it in the room. That one would have been tough because I went another hour out and didn't have someone to call since it was a rental.
I guess my point is, you shouldn't be allowed to put a car in drive or reverse if the key fob isn't detected.
At a minimum, would be nice if the speed got limited to 10mph or something, so you can drive it off the road safely.
Wireless CarPlay has that effect too. If you don’t see CarPlay maps on your dashboard then you know you’ve driven off without your phone.
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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