Magnets on your headphone cable 

I have a few pairs of Shure earphones which I use daily to listen to podcasts on my iPod Touch. I usually only use one ear piece (as i don’t need to hear podcasts in stereo plus I like to be able to hear sounds around me). Doing this, the headphone cable tends to pull on the single ear piece and the pressure around my ear isn’t bad, but sometimes it gets annoying. (Just FYI, like Shure recommends, I wrap the cable around my ear and insert the ear piece inverted (so the cable is pointing up)). I had some neodymium magnets laying around (i have some of the pill-like magnets) and I super-glued one to the headphone cable. When I use the headphones, I simply put a magnet behind my shirt/collar and attach the cable. No more pulling on my ear and the strong magnets work really well. I should have done this months ago, but thought I’d share incase anyone else wants to give it a try.

PS. Since the magnets are round, if they fall, they tend to bounce/roll on the floor. Plus they’re quite small which means you’re like to lose ‘em. What I did was superglue a small piece of rubber band on the back of the magnet (glue it when it’s connected to the headphone magnet to make sure the polarity is right). This serves two purposes: if it falls, it won’t roll away, and it serves as a visual indicator to help find it easier if it does fall.