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Unless you just started using the internet last month, then you’re probably familiar with the boom and bust cycle of hype that accompanies most web memes. Turns out even overlords of online hype, Daft Punk, aren’t immuned, as the same web community who breathlessly blogged every news items, YouTube tease and bogus music leak over the past year leading up to the duo’s TRON Legacy Soundtrack get snarky. …MORE
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URB.com is proud to host an exclusive giveaway of Skullcandy’s limited edition Tokidoki over-ear headphones! These are true Pop objets d’art, but they’ll also rock one’s cranium with proper bass delivered by 40mm drivers. The 16 – 2oHZ frequency response means you’ll hear and feel everything, and the external cable with volume control means you can quickly and gracefully adjust to life outside when you absolutely have to. Simply put, these gorgeous, eminently solid, portable foldables are a dream, whether you’re DJing, traveling, or getting your own private sonic universe on wherever, whenever… …MORE
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Inspiration hit Rick Alden on a chairlift, during a snowboarding trip in 2001. The iPod had just been introduced, but none of the headphones were designed to appeal to the iPod-toting action-sports crowd. It was time to change the game.
An experienced entrepreneur–Alden founded Device Manufacturing in 1995 and sold it to Atomic ski company in 1999–he got to work immediately and designed headphones and earbuds in bright colors and skater-boy patterns. He came up with a cool name–Skullcandy–and proceeded to take out two mortgages on the house he’d already paid off.
Alden says his wife made it an easy leap: “Her response was, ‘Listen, the worst thing that could possibly happen is the business fails, and we start all over again. That’s just not that bad.’ “ READ ALL
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