Ear Buds

Soul by Ludacris aims to provide the same sound quality you would expect in a professional pair of headphones, with a stylish and snazzy exterior. They were designed in collaboration with rap star Ludacris, who feels that all good music makes you feel something in your soul

You can walk around wearing advertisements on your head for some musician who should be paying you, or you can pop in a pair of subtle earbuds that also happen to deliver top-quality stereo sound and come with an inline remote and microphone. 

They’re invading our ears, sheathing our speakers, coating our iPhones and encasing our iPads. Cartoon characters made infamous by the game Angry Birds have been licensed by the accessory maker GEAR4 for a variety of new accessories.

One of the best reasons to put on headphones (besides to hear music that’s truly worth listening to) is to shut out the world around you. However, it's difficult to quiet down noisy environments, like the cabin of an airplane or the chatter in an office. 

You can always go with roses, assorted chocolates and a greeting card, but a bit of imagination can’t hurt when it comes to making Valentine’s Day memorable. Here are a bunch of gift-giving ideas for her, for him and for the kids.

Video game consoles, in-vehicle entertainment systems, rocking out to Justin Bieber on mobile media players; no matter how you slice it, kids end up spending a lot of time wearing in-ear headphones. Unfortunately, this is potentially dangerous for the youngsters’ eardrums.

This roundup of very personal iPod accessories covers touch-screen gloves, watch bands, arm bands, GPS and remote control add-ons, speaker docks, portable speakers, wireless (Bluetooth) receivers and headphones and more.

Dr. Dre, one of the world’s most influential hip-hop artists and producers, teamed up with the good folks over at Monster to create high quality, stylish headphones specifically designed to take advantage of the painstaking detail that goes into the music of today's digital artists.

Now you can dress yourself in earbuds that complement the changing colors of New York’s tallest building after dark. iLuv has debuted the City Lights in-ear headphones line in seven different colors that suggest the skyline at night: silver, black, blue, green, orange, red and pink.

When your ear buds become soiled from extended use, being able to rinse them off is a real option with Pioneer’s new SE-CL331 Washable In-Ear Sports Headphones.

Despite your summertime affinity for water and sand, such elements are year-round enemies of personal electronics. If you want to enjoy your music, videos and photos out-of-doors, consider a seasonal accessory designed to defend the investment in your mobile gear.

Let me start by saying I am not an audio specialist. I spend my days writing about cameras and related photo gear for the Photography section of InDepth. But like the majority of our species, I enjoy listening to music while I work, and especially when I go out for my evening run. 

What’s environmentally friendly, made out of wood and designed to stick in your ear? Thankfully, the answer isn't tribal style earlobe-stretching discs. The wooden objects I stuck into my ears were the thinksound ts02 In-Ear Stereo Headphones.

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