Here’s an interesting observation. 4 of 5 people on the street wear earphones the wrong way around most of the time. ie the earphone marked left goes in the right ear and vice versa. Chances are that if you’re listening to music right now through headphones, you may be guilty of the same thing.

Trivial but interesting. Read on. By people on the street, I’m excluding the hard core music buffs who use start of the art noise reducing beauties. Here I’m talking about the average person who uses it for listening to radio or hands free. I’m sure the average person doesn’t check the labels on the earphone before inserting it into a particular ear. But then chances of getting it wrong should be around 50% Evidently its much higher than that. Now if the wrong earphone feels right in the wrong ear, it must be that the earphone designers are doing a bad job of designing the earphones. Why don’t then earphone designers remove the label from earphones, or better still why don’t they reverse the labeling so at least the right earphone goes into the right ear, even if serendipitously?