Just to set the record a bit straighter and ruin your joke, those pics of beats with weights were knockoff beats from the flea market not real.

Reporting on that: https://gizmodo.com/are-beats-headphones-really-designed-to-...

We were doing that at Meraki back in the early 2010s (it turned out they were also useful as a heat sink and, because the metal was exposed to air, a radiator). Pretty sure Meraki got the idea from some Apple product or other.

Speaking of Meraki, I had an awful experience with those devices. Basically we were in building with TONS of other wifi networks around and Meraki network just went crazy from time to time until we fine tune it down to the channel for each AP. I mean, for something you pay $$$ to buy the devices and $$$ each month for the subscription is a pretty poor experience.

Nortel and it’s predeccessors bell northern telecom used to put weights in the handsets so they had a nice feel to them.