It’s the bane of any avid music listeners; headphones seemingly always become tangled when they’re stored in a pocket, bag or elsewhere. Thank God a workable solution to the problem has been discovered. Physicist Robert Matthews from Aston University in Birmingham, England says that clipping the two earbuds together, then attaching them to the end near the audio jack, will solve the problem.
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| This is how you prevent your earphones from tangling while in your bag or pockets |
In the first place how do the knots form? In a
separate study in mid-June experts from the University of California, San Diego,
investigated the probability of knotting, the type of knots formed and the
dependence on string length in their study. Scientifically, it was proven using the Murphy’s
Law that says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, thus anything
that will form a knot, will most definitely form a knot.
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| Hopefully, this solution will make experiences like this above disappear |
‘The study explains why your headphone cable
mysteriously turns into one big jumbled mess while it’s in your bag or pocket,’
said Matthews. ‘We’ve also struck upon an easy solution - simply clipping
together the two ends of the cords makes the cable less likely to form a knot -
saving the frustration of having to untangle it before plugging in. This was all about using hard science to
tackle an everyday issue, thereby saving us time, we use in untangling the
annoying knots before we enjoy the use of our earphones..
