I don't know about you, but I've never spent a second worrying about dust getting in the ear phone jack of my iPhone. However, in Japan, sketches and prototypes of a series of cat shaped ear phone jack protection accessories became a Twitter phenomenon, and now the productized cuties are available for sale.
The original @ Nekomura_otako twitter images






Story of how Pink Company discovers designs and makes the product



and now the six designs for 500yen each ($6.40)




smiling dangling kitten




















the artist also design Vocaloid Rin and Len iPhone covers



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.