I love my iPod, and I use it every day. But between earbud cables, straps for my laptop bag, and a jacket (even in summer… it’s San Francisco), things can get pretty cumbersome. Dew Motion’s Quiver iPod sash (for lack of a better term) aims to keep you from getting tangled in your own wires and makes it easier to control your iPod.
Control your musical destiny with the Quiver's handy buttons.
You wear the Quiver over one shoulder, messenger-style. It’s adjustable and made to be worn snugly across your chest. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t warn you that, yeah, it’s kinda dorky. A zippered pocket holds your iPod, and there’s a dock connector tucked inside that’s connected to navigation and volume buttons that sit across your chest. An internal channel routes your headphone cable, keeping it from getting caught on anything as you move around. The controls are a boon in situations where it would be inconvenient to dig your iPod out of your pocket or bag to skip that Lady Gaga song that just won’t die.
The Quiver has five raised control buttons, including Volume Up and Down, Pause/Play, and track Forward and Back, and the electronics can be completely removed for washing the fabric. In our tests, the buttons worked fine to control our tunes, but iPod touch aside, we can usually accomplish much the same thing by pressing our iPod’s buttons through a pocket--although the Quiver’s buttons are more convenient while you’re working out or snowboarding, for example. Quiver doesn’t officially support the iPhone, but we were able to use it with ours after first dismissing that annoying dialog box that pops up when you connect to unsupported devices.
Control your iPod without digging it out of your pocket. Internal headphone-cable channel.
It's a $90 set of control buttons. Doesn't officially support the iPhone, so your mileage may vary. It's dorky.
bumpskier
March 04, 2010 at 8:55am
My wife gave me a quiver as a gift this season knowing how much I hate to carry things around (and after I dropped my iPhone off a chairlift and lost it!). I have used this season it on the ski slopes at high intensity and love it! My earbuds no longer fall out after the first turn. Its great. I also use it on the street as it leaves my hands free and I answer the phone with a one button touch on my chest. I certainly dont feel "dorky" with it and have had numerous people ask me about it.
bumpskier
macmom42
March 03, 2010 at 4:09pm
I bought one of these when Smalldog first started carrying them back in January, and I love it. I don't care if anyone thinks I look dorky, either. It works perfectly with my iPhone, and it's just so nice to use after carrying my iPhone in my pocket while walking. It's also nice to not have the earbud wires dangling in front of me from my ears to my pocket since now they run through a hole in the Quiver that makes the wires come up from behind.
