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First I’d like to announce the winners of last week’s That Is All giveaway:
Andrew Hassing!
and
Willie Wood!
Congratulations, guys! I hope you both know how to read! If not, I have some bad news for you. YOU JUST WON A BOOK!!!
This week you have the chance to win a pair of TimbrePro Earbuds. Yay! Earbuds UP! They honestly seem very good and nice and fancy, but they also have a very funny description:
Treehugger? Good. Now you can have the sweet, smooth feel of wood in your ears, as well as in your arms. The speaker chamber is made entirely of wood, allowing rich sound and deep bass.
Hahaha. Finally I can have the sweet, smooth feel of wood in my ears. But seriously NERDS, you can check out the specs here, they seem great. In order to win:
- “Like” us on Facebook.
- Login to Videogum with your Facebook account.
- Comment with your opinion on using the mic in earbuds to answer calls.
THERE IS NO WRONG ANSWER! That’s the cool thing about these comment games. Always very good, and never a wrong answer. Comments must be submitted here by logging in with your Facebook account by Thursday, November 17th, 6PM EST. You can still play along if you just want to comment with your Videogum commenter account, but you can’t win! Only with your Facebook. I’m sorry. Also, you’ll be notified that you won through a Facebook message so WATCH OUT! Also, PLEASE ONLY COMMENT ONCE! And then a winner will be chosen at random. Yay!
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“I don’t understand why people keep snickering when I tell them these earbuds are like having wood in your ears.” – iFrogz sales rep
But yes, I will gladly listen to music with wood in my ears.
I really need some new ear buds.
And I never use the mic in ear buds because I hate the way the iphone ear buds feel (they feel horrible) and I’m too cheap to buy ear buds off the rack that have microphones in them, so I usually end up getting the cheapest ones and then being really irritated when they sound like crap (who knew that brittle pink plastic is not as nice to listen to as wood is?) and then also when they break like 10 seconds after I buy them.
So I guess my answer to the question actually posed is that I am not opposed to using the mic in some ear buds, if I like the ear buds. And I suspect I would like these a whole lot!
Aw man I wrote this whole pandering thing and now I’m going to have to give away my secret identity AND ALSO beg and plead again.
I’ll supplement my opinion with this question: Can I use the mic in these ear buds to record myself singing karaoke? In which case I am not only not opposed, but I am totally PRO-ear bud mics.
Answering phone calls with your iPod earbuds is a lot like answering phone calls with a Bluetooth headset: IT’S FUCKING STUPID!
i have never received a social call, so i’m not sure how i would like using earbuds to answer one. i imagine it would feel great. just really great.
also, here i am, world.
Acceptable, but only if the call is to set up some face time with me who is going to show up to punch you in the balls.
“Hello? HELLO MIKE. Ha, it sounds like you’re calling from inside a great redwood tree. I LOVE THAT TREE”
The only good thing about blueteeth (is that the plural?) and headphones such as these being able to answer calls was the creation of one of my favorite games to play in cities:
Crazy person talking to him/herself or douchebag on a bluetooth?
That said, I would very much enjoy these headphones to listen to music and/or Comedy Bang Bang.
Willie Wood should be disqualified from winning anything else, as he clearly already won the name lottery.
That’s a thing?
Well, as long as it’s smooth wood in my ears, I’m good….and yes, I’m 100% on the crazy person talking to himself train. It goes bluetooth (aka the coolest) > earbuds (totally normal) > phone to ear (caveman).
Hopefully Videogum can now serve me SUPER-RELEVANT and SUPER-TARGETED marketing messages as I listen to my hot beats.
My buds just broke. A microphone in my ears seems OK. This is a terrible comment. Thank goodness this is chosen at random.
I am definitely against using earbuds while on the phone for the reasons people outlined above (they look crazy and sometimes I think they are talking to me when they are not, though that says more about my expectation when hanging out in public, I guess), but you know, I guess the ‘use earbuds while on the phone’ people won’t get cancer or whatever so good for them? This was one sentence.
Can Honestly Say I want that wood in my ear, Please, PLEASE?
Please.
I use my earbuds to take calls all the time. I also like to win free stuff.
Well, I’d make some snide remark about headphones with in-line mics, but just today, I managed to use an even douchebaggier technique: my silly over-the-ear headphones are mic-less, and so rather than remove my headphones, unplugging them and then talking (approx. an hour later) I just lifted the mic of the phone to my mouth and look like a HUGE DORK.
Wait, is that not cool? It probably looks cool when I do it, though. Which is all the time.
I like wood, and music, and musical wood. I can haz these headphones please? Thanks!
Earbud mic phone calls confuse me. It’s like that scene in Freaky Friday where the counter lady at the supermarket thinks Jamie Lee Curtis is talking to her, but she’s really on a call.
I would really love to enjoy that in-depth acoustic tuning, undistorted highs and wood.
I don’t know if I’ve told this story on here or not, but it’s a good story and I probably did it as my Monster alias, so.
A few years ago I was buying a Christmas tree at Menard’s and took the one I wanted up front so they could saw off a little of the bottom of the trunk. While the guy was sawing it off, he asked me, “how long will it take you to get home?”
I assumed he was worried that the tree would be, I don’t know, outside too long(?) so I said, “Not long. I don’t live far.”
“Well, can you call me when you get there?”
“Uh,” I said.
“I can help you. Just call me when you get home.”
“Uhm. Well. I’ve, like, set up a Christmas tree before.”
“I’d just feel a lot better if you called me when you got home.”
“Okay. Well, I’m not-”
And then he said, “excuse me, Sir. Were you saying something?” And he looked up and I saw his Bluetooth and I felt crazy all of a sudden so I just shouted “MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
And that is how I feel about answering calls on those earbud things.
I wood love to win these. Get it?! I used “wood” instead of “would.” Please choose this comment at random.
Oh man, these sound like they would be great for amplifying the rich sounds and deep bass of “My Neck, My Back” when I definitely listen to later today!
These would go great with my discman. I just can’t get enough of the Spin Doctors!
So this isn’t about phone calls, but I my sister and I are the only people I’ve ever met who have this problem: we *cannot use* the earbuds that come with iPods, or any earbuds of that style, because our ears lack on of the… bumps? one of the cartilaginous protrusions that everyone else seem to have that keeps the earbuds in place. It makes e feel like a genetic freak. Is this the biggest first-world problem of all time?
I can give you the sweet, smooth feel of wood in your ear for half the price.
Just kidding that would be pretty gross and also quite difficult to physically do
Remember when they used to put wood grain on the exterior of Jeeps? Why don’t they do that anymore?
Like the Jeep in “Harry in the Hendersons”. God, I loved that movie. I bet Bigfoot (Harry) would use these earbuds to answer his calls from John Lithgow (Mr. Henderson)…
Earbuds that answer phone calls? What is this, the future? It makes me uncomfortable like the general idea of Kristen Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow hanging out does, but I’m willing to try it.
I only have one song on my iPhone, Two Princes, and I didn’t think it could sound any better, but I think it wood (get it?) if I had these.
Spin Doctors jokes are so hot right now.
“Answering calls with your headphones” is the new “Proposing to Emma Stone on your vlog”.
Yay, gimme headphones.
Are we allowed to enter these if we’ve already won in the past?
My earbuds just broke and I love trees (especially in my ears?)! And I talk(ed) on the phone through the mic in my earbuds all the time, I didn’t even realize that was something people found annoying or douchey.
I don’t really have much of an opinion on people answering phones on their earbuds, but I would like to win this. (This is totally random, right? You don’t like, filter out the clever ones and then chose randomly from those? I’m just not feeling very clever right now, is the thing).
Answering your phone with the built-in mic makes you look like a confused time traveler.
GIMMIE DEM BUDS.
If I answer using the built-in mic, I won’t have to take time away from hacky-sacking, didgeridooing, or putting patchouli in my dreadlocks, because hippies. GET IT?!
I get anxious about answering the phone at all, because phones are so new-fangled that what if I accidentally connect with the aliens from Mars Attacks instead of my boy on the side? DOUBLE TROUBLE situation cause then it turns out he is one anyway and he’s running out of that special gum.
Answering calls with your ear-buds is the worst! But not as bad as with Bluetooth plugins! At least we can see that you have headphones in both ears even when you turn your head away from us, guy, and so you don’t just look like you’re talking to yourself.
It’s a way to answer calls. The rules do not state that an opinion must be given.
Just kidding. I am in favor.
oh, i have to comment HERE. how embarrassing.
I would like to own these things, especially if it does not cost me any money!
I never use the mic for answering phone calls while I’m out, but at work it is perfect for some reason
I hate when other people do it, because I think they’re crazy people talking to themselves and I feel bad! Especially since I start talking back so that they don’t look so crazy! Which just makes me look like the crazy one!
I like the idea of making people think you’re schizophrenic, until they realize you’re just an audiophile with an affinity for rich mahogany.
These earbuds remind me of that gif that got deleted with the dude using two dicks as q-tips. Remember that? No? Oh well.
i want these, but i’m still going to unplug them and hold the phone to my ear like a non-crazy person when people call me.
Earbud mics for calls work fine but I am always weirded out by the fact that I am talking into nothing but somehow it is grabbing my voice out of the air. I am old fashioned and I don’t understand technology and science.
If all my electronics were made of wood, the world would be a nicer place.
There, but for the grace of God, goes your dad.
Am I doing this right?
Using the mic is only ok if you can pretend you’re singing along instead of having a conversation.
I would most likely assume you were crazy if you were walking along talking with the ear bud mic. My current headphones are in need of replacement though!
I don’t answer calls, with or without earbuds. Haven’t people heard of mail?
‘…as well as in your arms.’
implying i carry logs around everywhere? alright, sure.
i was gonna buy new headphones this week! THIS IS SUCH A PROBLEM SOLVER!
in most public places its crude, but not horrible. there are exceptions. overall it’s onboxious
the one time in my life i’ve talked on the phone using the mic in a pair of headphones i felt like an insane monster who was ruining society and i was sure that everyone was staring at me. but…. i think i could get used to it.
I would totes use these to answer calls just on the off-chance someone might think I’m a spy. I spend most hours of most days wishing someone thought I was a spy.
But can someone explain how the mic is supposed to pick up my voice if it’s IN MY EAR?
The mic tastes like a burger. I don’t like it anymore