'Just as good as $100 earbuds': I tested out Aldi's bargain-bin $14 / £12 sports earbuds and I'm shocked to report that you should buy them
Back in the glorious tech golden age of the nineties and noughties, you couldn't move for cheap tech (or, as I often called it then "cheap techy tat"). Themed MP3 players, custom memory sticks, awful airline earbuds, tacky accessories you'd stick to your iPod; all of these lined the walls of supermarkets, post offices, corner stores. Not so much, any more.
It feels like cheap tech is much harder to find now; our heightening tech expectations (techspectations?) combined with the advent of Temu and AliExpress has taught us the dangers of e-waste. But has all this concern for landfill taken away a special kind of novelty that the best cheap earbuds don't replace?
German retail chain Aldi, however, missed the memo. As revealed to me by my editor, nestled between the plastic cheese and battery-farmed chicken, the brand sometimes offers honest-to-goodness headphones. But not in all stores, and with vague...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to techradar.com. To see the full text click HERE
