If you’ve tried to listen to music while running then you know how hard it is to keep the cord from your headband from bouncing around. You may have stuffed it down your shirt; run it down your backside; or like me, gone Bluetooth. For runners still wrestling with cables, Hex has a new cable keeper that promises to keep your cord in check on the run.
The Hex Cable Keeper is a Velcro armband strap with a loop you can feed your headphone cable through. It secures your headphone cord on your upper arm, but you have to give it enough slack to be able to move your arm around and not yank it from the MP3 player, or your ears. The strap sells for $8.95 and Hex has it paired with the Ultimate Watch Band for the iPod nano. With your MP3 player on your wrist and cord secured to your upper arm, that cable really isn’t going anywhere. If you use the strap and have your MP3 player clipped to your waist, you just need to give it a little more slack, but not so much that the cable goes back to its old ways of jumping around.