Originally posted on TechCrunch:
A cursory search under "headphone management" will bring up virtually hundreds of products. Spoolee's novel contribution to the category is a twig adrift in an ocean of competition. This seems like a small and unusual product for us to cover but there are three things that make this product stand out and that are worth mentioning:
- The industrial designer who created it-Ray Walker-quit a lucrative day job to go after this startup dream of his. That's mostly what I want to talk about.
- It is pretty clever...definitely filed under "holy crap, why didn't I think of that."
- It mostly works as advertised.
But first the basics: what is it and how does it work. According to Ray, the idea for Spoolee came pretty quickly as he was solving a problem mentioned to him by his wife: her headphones kept getting knotted up and that was annoying. We've all...
