Re: OT: wireless headphones

TsuiDF wrote:
On Nov 23, 7:11 pm, John Varela <OLDla...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:04:43 -0500, TsuiDF wrote
(in article
<1ff49db1-ef5b-4e68-ab9c-c380cb378...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

wireless headphones

Shouldn't that be "cordless" headphones?

I know that "wireless headphones" greatly outGoogles both "cordless
headphones" and "radio headphones"; I'm asking not about what is but
about what should be.

Aha, that's shirley aue and on-topic!

But I confess I don't see much of a difference between 'wires' or
'cords' that the headphones are -less. If I had to differentiate, I'd
imagine a cord to be curly (a la telephone) and a wire to be
straight. But that's not exactly a detailed technical explanation, I
admit.

I think it tends to be "cordless" when you are talking about power transfer and "wireless" when it's more about signal.
Cordless: drills, sanders, kettles, irons, shavers
Wireless: mouse, keyboard, headphones

Not everything follows that rule, though.

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