review: iLocket

If you’re tall from the waist up, you’ve probably never gotten your earbud cables tangled while wearing them. But if your ears are closer to your waist than the average earbud cable length assumes, the excess cable has nowhere to go. So the idea behind the iLocket is that you wrap up the excess cable at the Y-junction in the middle and hide it away inside a little white plastic capsule that’s about the size of a wristwatch without the band and weighs next to nothing.

Does the iLocket work? Yes. It is easy? Yes. Is it stylish looking? Eh, that’s up to each of you to decide (most passersby will probably assume that it’s some kind of advanced new earbud enhancing product, not a four dollar piece of plastic, so you may be in the clear here after all). I found that the iLocket worked equally well with the stock earbuds that come with the iPhone and iPod and my favorite set of in-ear earbuds, although I will caution you to be careful when snapping the iLocket shut, as the most expensive earbuds often come with the thinnest and most fragile of wires. And the product won’t necessarily work for you if your earbuds have their iPhone mic/button controls right the center of the Y-junction (most earbuds have it higher up on the cabling anyway, so this’ll only affect a few of you).

Some of you will view the iLocket as a solution in search of a problem, but others of you will find it useful – and it’s priced right.

Learn more about the iLocket at iLocket.net