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Then yesterday I happened across a Sharper Image store. If you’re not familiar with Sharper Image, it’s a store that sells random gadgets and techie thigamagigs that you didn’t know you needed for exorbitant prices. As the name suggests, Sharper Image is all about techie fashion; it’s a place for people who want a gadget that looks cool go to be relieved of their cash. Actually, I have often enjoyed browsing the random contraptions for sale at Sharper Image, but I’ve never actually considered purchasing anything there.<\/p>\n Anyway, Sharper Image is exactly the kind of place that people stop going when the economy is bad, and so they ran out of money<\/a> a couple of months ago. Yesterday while tooling around Burlingame looking at expensive baby stores, I noticed that the local Sharper Image was having a going-out-of-business sale. I looked around inside but was unimpressed; I don’t need a $500 pair of nightvision goggles, or a memory card that fits in your phone, or a set of spoons with digital displays in the handles, or any of the other crap they had for sale. Just as I was walking out, however, I noticed that they had wireless headphones<\/i>! Upon further inspection it turned out that the ‘phones were Blue Tooth, came with a transmitter (which is a non-trivial addition), and were going for about $80, marked down from $199. And to top it all off, these headphones had big, wrap-around ear pads, the kind that I like.<\/p>\n So I bought them. I don’t need two pairs of wireless headphones, but on the other hand the Sony IRs should work better away from the TV, so maybe I can find a use for them. I hooked up the Blue Tooth headphones and am extremely happy to report that they sound phenomenal<\/i> (at least, compared to the IRs). There’s no static, the sound is crisp and clear, and unlike the infrared headphones they don’t require line-of-sight to work. Ok, so the volume controls are pretty unresponsive and I couldn’t get the damn things to pair with my computer, but who cares: these headphones are exactly what I was looking for. My quest for wireless headphones has, for the moment anyway, come to an end.<\/p>\n Which means, just so you know, that I can get back to playing horror games on a more regular basis. I’m most of the way through Hellnight<\/a> and I’ve put some serious time into Siren 2<\/a>. I’ve been temporarily distracted by the hilarious (and very fun) No More Heros<\/i>, but I’m closing in on the end of that game pretty quickly. Thanks to new (non-sucky) wireless headphones, I hope to retire and review another game or two in the next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A while back I posted a short and completely off-topic piece about wireless headphones. Basically, good wireless headphones are not cheap, and though there are pretty good alternatives, some of them (like the Sony IR headphones I ended up buying) get interference from plasma TVs (hooray!). Despite the color-induced static, I toughed it out with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEven cooler.<\/p><\/div>A while back I posted a short and completely off-topic piece about wireless headphones<\/a>. Basically, good wireless headphones are not cheap, and though there are pretty good alternatives, some of them (like the Sony IR headphones I ended up buying) get interference from plasma TVs (hooray!). Despite the color-induced static, I toughed it out with my IR ‘phones for several months; though many of you suggested that I just get a nice long cable and forget about the whole wireless business, my TV’s lack of headphone port kept that option out of reach. I played through all of Bioshock<\/i> with the IR headphones, I watched several movies with them, and I used them to improve my Rock Band<\/i> singing. I was hoping that I’d just get used to the wavering layer of static that my TV caused, but I didn’t. The wireless headphones weren’t totally useless, but I was pretty disappointed with them.<\/p>\n