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Everyone looks cool rocking gigantic headphones, and now Sol Republic is taking it to the next level by letting you customize your next pair of huge cans. Sol Republic's Tracks and Tracks HD headphones are now coming in a variety of sweet colors that you can mix and match to make your own. Purple, grey, orange, even pink: they're all available in this new approach to next-generation headphones. In the end, there are eight colors for the headband and six to choose from for the wires. The headphones themselves come in either polished black (V8 Sound Engine) or brushed chrome (V10 Sound Engine). If you're not happy with your first combo, you can make changes on the fly. A new headband will set ...

Blaring your iPod doesn't just disturb the peace--it kills your ears, too. It only takes 30 minutes of listening to your iPod at a volume of 9 or 10 to increase your risk of hearing loss, experts say. "Our ears didn't evolve to be able to tolerate massively loud sounds," says Brian Fligor, Sc.D., professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard University Medical School. "In my review of the scientific literature, as many as 18 percent of people aged 20 to 40 years in the U.S. have some degree of noise-induced hearing loss. And more men in this age range have noise-induced hearing loss than women," says Fligor. So why are your ears aging before you even sprout a wrinkle? Hearing loss is ...