How To: Make your iPod earbuds go crazy.

I listen to my iPod around 6 hours every week day, well 6 hours with the earbuds in. I probably listen to my iPod more than 8 hours every week day...sorry...OK back to the point. On occasion my earbuds give me this weird electric pop in my ear, the music goes numb (fades out by about 1/2 volume) and then after around a second they make the same click and fade back to full volume. It always happens in the same ear, the right. Pretty trippy isn't it?!

I had trouble reproducing this special little ear scare for the longest time and then a pattern started to evolve. I noticed that if I shifted my weight in my chair quickly I could make it happen, but if I shifted my weight subtly nothing happened. Then one day I decided to sit still in my chair which, in order to reproduce you'll need to know is a Herman Miller Aeron , and rub my sneakers on the carpeting. Voila, there is was. Apparently, each time I shift my seat and consequently rubbed my sneakers on the carpet I am conducting a static charge that doesn't shock me or anything I touch but passes through my body to my ears where one of my iPod earbuds (the right) is sensitive enough to react and cancel the sound coming from that ear phone for about a second.

To try this at home you'll need:
iPod Earbuds
A Herman Miller Aeron chair
Industrial Carpet
Sneakers (Adidas)
** Caviat ** the above test case is what I have, you may be able to produce the same results with your own brand of sneakers and a different chair.

Let me know if you get the same phenomenon from your iPod Earbuds

l8r,
Kyle