PopSockets’ new ultrathin grip is the product its founder wanted to make all along

The PopSockets Low-Pro Grip is the company’s thinnest product yet, and will initially be sold only at Apple stores.

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More than 15 years ago, David Barnett was working as a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado when he came across a problem. His headphones kept getting tangled up.

He ventured to a Joann fabrics store, where he bought two buttons he glued to the back of his phone; he would wrap the wire around them. Problem solved! Or at least he thought so—until he realized how ridiculous it looked, and searched for a........

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