{"id":132,"date":"2006-02-04T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=132"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:19:05","slug":"invention-retractible-ipod-earphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2006\/02\/invention-retractible-ipod-earphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Invention: Retractible iPod Earphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I just get ideas that jump into my head &#8211; often in the shower or in that part of a plane flight where you cannot have electronic devices turned on &#8211; so I am reduced to thinking, pencil and paper.<br \/>\nI invent many things, never write them down and then get ticked because folks make a zillion dollars and I am still driving a 1996 Oldsmobile.<br \/>\nSo I am going to start putting my ideas into my blog.  Not to get rich &#8211; just to get credit when someone else does:)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href= http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/images\/2006\/02\/index.php?img=04-02-06_1150001.jpg target=_new><img src=http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/images\/2006\/02\/04-02-06_1150001.jpg height=240px width=320px align=left><\/a>Look at this picture.  It is an enhanced iPod Shuffle with an additional audio out at the bottom &#8211; there is a variant of the little thing that clicks over the USB port but it has a retractible set of headphones.<br \/>\nSimple idea but pretty useful.<br \/>\nI wonder if it is possible to patent something just by writing it up in one&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I just get ideas that jump into my head &#8211; often in the shower or in that part of a plane flight where you cannot have electronic devices turned on &#8211; so I am reduced to thinking, pencil and paper. I invent many things, never write them down and then get ticked because folks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}