It’s 4AM somewhere and you’re dozing above the Atlantic. The cabin lights are dimmed, the credits to Darkest Hour are rolling and you swivel around to face the aisle only to be caught in the cable of your wireless headphoness. You’re a prisoner, shackled to the screen in front of you, or worse, the arm rest. Your crime? Daring to revel in the nostalgia of watching a plane movie on a plane, and so were forced to dig out said cable so you could dutifully, begrudgingly plug in your Bluetooth cans.

The imaginatively named RHA Wireless Flight Adapter, which lets you use wireless headphoness with in-flight entertainment systems, wasn’t released in time to be the hero of this story, but it’s a neat summer buy nonetheless. It’s £40, plugs into single stereo or twin mono 3.5mm jacks and lasts for 16 hours on one charge. RHA promises "easy pairing" and says the Flight Adapter will remember up to eight devices. The range is listed as 10+ metres.

RHA is far from the first company to think of this trick. You might remember the £50 AirFly adapter from TwelveSouth, which was aimed specifically at wearers of Apple’s AirPods, and the likes of the £17 Taotronics Transmitter are cheaper still. But British audio brand RHA has the audio credentials in its corner – its TrueConnect in-ears are some of the finest-sounding wireless earbuds around.

As such, you’ll find the latest Bluetooth 5.0 with support for both aptX and SBC codecs onboard. It might sound counterintuitive, but what’s being piped into your ears is far more important for a relaxing flight than what you’re looking at when you’re at high altitude. Just ask the people doubling up with AirPods underneath noise-cancelling headphoness.

In the interest of keeping things compact the Adapter foregoes a short cable as you’ll find on rival adapters. RHA told us that the 3.5mm pin rotates 180 degrees and can rest in any position, no matter the tricky angle.

RHA’s also pitching the Adapter as a giver of Bluetooth to gym equipment, speakers and portable consoles, like the Nintendo Switch, which currently only supports a limited number of wireless headphoness and gaming headsets.

Airlines have different policies on Bluetooth headphones usage, so it's always best to check. For instance, British Airways' policy is that Bluetooth headphoness are not permitted during take-off and landing, but can be used during flight.

This article was originally published by WIRED UK