{"id":39821,"date":"2009-11-11T04:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T09:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123584"},"modified":"2009-11-11T04:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T09:20:56","slug":"now-in-more-colors-pig-shaped-earphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39821","title":{"rendered":"Now in more colors: Pig-shaped earphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-123585\" title=\"piggy_earphones\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/piggy_earphones-620x511.png\" alt=\"piggy_earphones\" width=\"620\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some Japanese gadget freaks do have a penchant for weird earphones, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/20\/these-crazy-earphones-sure-deserve-their-name\/\">that&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/08\/07\/thanko-strikes-again-catgirl-earphones\/\">for<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/10\/20\/angel-and-devil-new-strange-earphones-from-green-house\/\">sure<\/a>, meaning these things actually seem to <em>sell<\/em>. I doubt that otherwise, Tokyo-based accessory maker Greenhouse would have updated the <em>buta<\/em> (piggy) earphones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2008\/06\/23\/japanese-company-sells-earphones-shaped-like-cute-and-wild-pigs\/\">they gave us in June 2008.<\/a> It&#8217;s not a technical update but the same earphones are available in purple and orange now (see the picture on the left).<\/p>\n<p>You can still get the first series, available in black, white and pink, too (pictured below). The idea remains the same: Stick one half of a pig into your right ear and the other half into the left ear. You can still choose between ear pieces in 3 different sizes (small, medium and large).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28639\" title=\"pig_earphones\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pig_earphones.jpg\" alt=\"pig_earphones\" width=\"500\" height=\"472\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greenhouse plans to start selling the pig earphones in Japan next week for $15 each. I suggest you contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantrendshop.com\/index.php?language=en\">Japan Trend Shop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekstuff4u.com\/\">Geek Stuff 4 U<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinkya.com\/\">Rinkya<\/a> in case you live outside Japan and you\u2019re interested in getting one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Yx3UhtKiR_Bp57Sj3pAh1m42oH8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Yx3UhtKiR_Bp57Sj3pAh1m42oH8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Yx3UhtKiR_Bp57Sj3pAh1m42oH8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Yx3UhtKiR_Bp57Sj3pAh1m42oH8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=-1Sr-CK-9-w:V9_VlcXr8gY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=-1Sr-CK-9-w:V9_VlcXr8gY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=-1Sr-CK-9-w:V9_VlcXr8gY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=-1Sr-CK-9-w:V9_VlcXr8gY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=-1Sr-CK-9-w:V9_VlcXr8gY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Japanese gadget freaks do have a penchant for weird earphones, that&#8217;s for sure, meaning these things actually seem to sell. I doubt that otherwise, Tokyo-based accessory maker Greenhouse would have updated the buta (piggy) earphones they gave us in June 2008. It&#8217;s not a technical update but the same earphones are available in purple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}