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Sony Ericsson Develops Contact Headphones
TechnologyResource writes "Sony Ericsson has just introduced the MH907 headphones. The headphones will pause or play your music based on contact; eliminating the use of a pause or stop button. Removing one ear bud will pause the music. Removing both ear buds will stop the music. Both ear buds have to be in your ear to play the music. According to Sony Ericsson, this will allow you to 'play your music and answer phone calls just by inserting the buds into your ear or taking them out.'"
Oh, and put the phone down. You're driving.
Wow, that is a new level of ludditism. Now, it's not just interactive conversations that are somehow magically more dangerous if you use one of those evil modern talkie devices. Now, you are somehow being more dangerous listening to music if it is produced by the one of those evil modern talkie devices than if it is produced by the good and holy devices that became popular in or before the more righteous and holy 1980's.
I hope you die because the ambulance you were riding in couldn't get past some idiot who couldn't hear the sirens.
Thank you for reinforcing my point on the stupidity of people who have no problems with the exact same results produced by a pre-90's technology like a walkman or even AM radio, while thinking that post 90's technology is somehow far more dangerous.
(Yes, I know that the cell phone technically predates the 90's, but it was post 90 that it became popularized.)
Wow. Every single sentence of that post showed a great deal of ignorance. Seriously. Every single one of them. Just amazing.