Circumcision

I got my iPhone on launch day. It’s been great. I love it more than any other piece of kit I’ve got. But I’ve got one ongoing problem with it: the recessed headphone port.

I had to resort to just using the packed-in iPhone earbuds and I didn’t like it. I tried alternate methods of inserting them and while they sounded better, they still fell out more than I’d like. That left me with 2 solutions: use the god-awful Belkin adapter or figure out how to make my current headphones work.

So I pulled out my Exacto knife and my cutting mat and went to work. I had a spare set of Koss KSC-75’s since I lost the metal clip to one of the headphones, so I practiced on that.



At first, it looked like it might be messy, shaving back the rubber around the plug.



Then I found that there was a harder rubber over the part I didn’t want to cut!



Having discovered that, I felt confident that I could just circumcise the plug and be ok.







The end result:





It works perfectly!