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The Holy Grail: Sweat-Proof Headphonesby Peter Shankman
CES, if you play it right, is a healthy-exerciser's fantasy. You spend the majority of the day walking miles and miles around the convention floor, trying desperately to find appointments with reps of companies. Once you actually locate them, you spend the next 20 minutes walking from product to product to get information on them. Then you walk back to your hotel, take a shower, and spend another six hours walking from party to party, smiling politely. Fall asleep for three hours, and do it again. So my quest this morning was to find a perfect pair of headphones, and a laptop bag that could stand up to my repeated runs. I think I found both, but I'll need more testing. The problem with most running headphones falls into two categories: If you run and get sweaty, the sweat either drips into your ears and knocks the in-ear headphones out, or, if you wear over-the-ear headphones, the sweat drips onto the cushioning and into the earphones, and eventually shorts them out. But finally, someone got smart! Altec Lansing created headphones with the same moisture-wicking technology that you find in your racing shirts, and applied it to the cushioning around the headphones. Result? Sweat-proof headphones! Second: I'm one of those idiots who run to meetings all the time. Sometimes, I'll combine a run with actually going to a meeting — do the loop, then head to a meeting, stopping by a NYSC to take a shower first. The problem, though, is running with a backpack is usually hellish. Not only are most laptop backpacks amazingly uncomfortable, but they're all really heavy, and horrible to run with. And as a bonus, they're all pretty darn ugly. Which is why I was psyched to find Golla Bags at CES. They have a gorgeous new laptop bag. When I put it on, I was amazed to see how it fit — it hugged my back — and it "breathes," in a way that lets me sweat without transferring it to my laptop inside. Best part? Price point when it's sold in the US in a few months: about $70. That rocks. More soon, from the land that decency forgot….
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