Invention: Wi-fi Headphones

Imagine a pair of headphones that have built in wi-fi (they can connect to the internet). This could create a number of ways to listen to audio wirelessly. You could listen to internet radio for example.

But here’s what I would want to do:
1. Leave my computer on at home (with iTunes shared or Red Chair softwares Audigen, or something)
2. The headphones constantly search for an open wi-fi hot spot
3. When a wi-fi hotspot is found the headphones connect to my home computer’s music collection.
4. I use a little remote control gadget attached to the headphones to peruse my music collection.

This way you could have a huge collection of music at home, and be able to listen to it anywhere you go, and not be dependent on an expensive hard-drive-based-gadget (ie. Ipod). There could also be a buffering system where the devices downloads the songs to internal memory, so if you temporarily lose signal you’ll still be able to listen without interruption.

Futuristically, you could even share other types of media, like photos or even movies, all over wi-fi (though you’d need a little video screen with wi-fi, rather than, or in addition to, the headphones), and it could all be coming from a Media Center-type PC/hard drive in your living room. The idea is to leave all you media at home.

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