I came across yankodesigns.com earlier this year and often look at new concepts that are posted. The most recent design that cot my eye was, ‘The Apple Hairbands.’ As you can see below this product is very eye catching but simple. The simple yet obvious shape highlights the effectiveness of this product.
If you look at previous Apple earphones (like the most famous ones shown below) there not very interesting. Apple stands for creativity as you see in all their products from the iPhone, to the iPad and finally to the design of the Mac Book Pro. But these earphone just doesn’t share that vision in my opinion, yeah back when these first came out the white colour choice showed modernism, cleanness and simplicity, but now, there just plain boring.
Apple attempted to change the earphones for the iPhone, by adding a microphone and switch section onto the product. Yeah function wise, its perfect but aesthetic wise? Not so good in my opinion. If you compare the old earphones to Yanko Design’s concept of the hairband, it shows a new twist on the combination of earphone and headphones. Even the small details like, the adjustable length for the head, the light up logo part when the product is being used, the same technology and function as in the apple logo on the mac book pro. (Image below shows the buttons ad light on the headpiece.
Over all, I feel Apple’s earphones are outdated and should be developed their into something like this design, its eye catching, interesting and fits well in to the cohesiveness of the rest of the products.
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