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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.'"
How about you and Van Gogh buy some other earphones? Or do they have to get your personal approval on this one?
I realize this is a tough one to figure out, but the solution is to not buy these headphones.
I'm sure you can stick the second ear bud somewhere else. ...perhaps in the ear of your scantily clad model?
The MH907 is only compatible with Sony Ericsson's own Fast Port-equipped phones -- Fast Port is SE's proprietary connector on the bottom of its phones.
Fail.
This is a better question than the mods seem to appreciate. They deny you the ability to listen with only one ear, while keeping in touch with the outside world with the other.
but considering this is Sony, it is very likely that the headphones will overheat and explode in your ear, cause a commotion at a UN meeting, install a rootkit on anything you insert it in, and lose a format war with something else on the market.
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
I tried your suggestion, but the rat kept running away, pausing the music.
If that's the case then these probably aren't the headphones for you.