A Headset Fit For A Hackaday Writer

What happened

The flexible joint that attaches one earpiece to the headband has snapped, leaving the earpiece dangling on its cable. This is annoying on its own, but what is annoying me enough to write about it is that this isn’t the first time.

Failure Built-In Failure inevitable: the whole headset relied on a tiny piece of plastic in the centre. At its most basic, a headset is a springy band that goes over the head, with an earpiece at its end.

But a human head is not a cube with vertical parallel sides, it’s a complex shape and every one is different. So those earpieces have to have some “give” in them in order to fit comfortably against the ear.