<OT> Headphone for public use

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

If anyone's actually interested, I haven't found the preferred hard
"real" headphones, and in looking on the web and at Walmart, I have
found only one headphone that would be reliably cleanable.  Oddly, it's
an earbud sort sold at Walmart for just $0.97--not on their web site, as
far as I can tell.  So ironically, the most cleanable one I've found is
also the most disposable.  Unfortunately, an earbud is probably the
least appropriate type otherwise.

Then there's one available from Tiger Direct for $3.00, and from a
Canadian company for only $2.00.  It's got foam pads (which are
presumably replaceable if we found a source).  I knew something like
this had to exist, as Walmart sells a cassette player with a similar
(but all-plastic) headphone included for $5.00.

http://www.mostlydigital.ca/detail.php?recordID=H44782
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Edp
No=2181226&CatId=390
 
I had forgotten that the airlines give them out, but then at the price
of even discounted airfare, the economics are somewhat different than at
a free library.


Stuart Biggerstaff
Systems Technician
Linda Hall Library of Science Engineering & Technology
5109 Cherry St.
Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2498

Phone:	(816) 926-8748
	(800) 662-1545 x748
FAX:	(816) 926-8790
URL:	www.lindahall.org 
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of James McDonald
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:48 PM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: <OT> Headphone for public use

Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> I just thought someone else might have run into this...
>
> I need to find a headphone suitable for use on a public workstation.  
> To me, that suggests a relatively lightweight "hard" one, or 
> less-ideally a "soft" one with nonporous vinyl padding rather than 
> plain foam.  That is, I need something that can be properly cleaned
between uses.
>
> On the other hand, if someone knows where to get cheap foam ones (the 
> kind that sit on the ear and have a wire frame over your head) for a 
> dollar or less a piece, that we could buy in bulk and give out like 
> mints, that would sort of do the same thing.
>
>   
Airlines have those don't they? So find a friendly air hostess and she
might be able to tell you the supplier details.

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