Be Connected - Electronics

The JVC Marshmallow earbuds are truly a miracle of modern materials science.

I bought them last weekend and when I put them in my ears to rollerblade home with, I had to go back to the standard iPod earbuds I rode in on. The Marshmallows blocked too much outside noise–they simply weren’t safe in traffic. As I sit here at my desk, it’s a truly bizarre experience; I seriously can’t hear anything around me. The only thing I can hear is my music and my swallowing.

They have this crazy semi-stiff foam–I’d say it’s about the consistency of a padded car dashboard, if that actually means anything. They block noise way better than the bulky $80 noise-cancelling headphones I bought last year, and for a quarter of the price. They’re as comfortable as any other earbud I’ve used, although they do give you kind of a weird “full” feeling in your ear canal. Not nearly as full as sticking ACTUAL marshmallows in your ear, which, though it is a zero-calorie way to get marshmallows into your body, is probably not, on balance, worth it.

This is normally the part where I’d give you a link to JVC’s site so you can go look at them, but strangely, JVC doesn’t list them. Become to the rescue, I suppose.

Aram