You know the drill. You pull out your headphones and you spend five minutes untangling them. Something magical happens when you put a carefully folded pair of headphones in your pocket. And not the good kind of magic.

One product born of this problem is the Cordskinz earbuds wrap. Rather than wrap around a set of folded cords, the Cordskinz are tubes that you slide around the wires between the headphone neck and the yoke (the point where two wires become one).

I’ve been using Cordskinz for a couple of weeks now and they do indeed solve the problem. I rarely spend more than a second or two to get from the pocket bundle to completely unwrapped and ready to go. The secret is the stiffness of the tubes. They tend to keep the headphone wires in position in your pocket. As you reach in your pocket for other things, you don’t tend to slide the headphones to new positions, a prime reason for tangles.

So how do you get the Cordskinz onto your headphones? In a nutshell, you take one of the tubes in the kit, cut it to size (you’ll cut it into two lengths if your earbuds have a mic, one between the mic and your ear, one between the mic and the yoke), then use the provided doohickey (technical term) to slide the tube into place.

It really is ingenious. Watch the video to get a sense of how this works.