A wireless headset makes both a fashion statement and a social comment: I'm talking about important things with someone way more fabulous than you.
Posted on 08/16/2005 9:38:08 AM PDT by MississippiMasterpiece
So, let's say you love your cell phone. You love the color, the shape, the camera features and the fun text messaging. You love taking it out of your pocket, gazing into its shiny screen, flipping up the top and shouting through the background noise into it. You put stickers on it. You named it. You take comfort in its proximity to your ear. You will risk cancer to avoid looking like a dork wearing a dangling headset walking down the street.
You, my friend, are way behind the times.
Increasingly, consumers are investing in Bluetooth-enabled mobile wireless headsets because they're tired of the hassle of picking up the phone. These headsets, which industry experts say will also be able to be used with iPods as headphones, can be worn all day. Calls can be answered by pushing a button on the headset -- actually, they work within 33 feet of the cell phone itself.
Humans and machines have now grown even closer, and people will have even fewer excuses for missing calls.
But do we want to become more available? To have the option of switching between portable music player and cell phone with even less opportunity for human interactions?
"I'm mocked constantly," says Lynne Brady, manager at Amoeba Records in San Francisco and proud owner of a Bluetooth-enabled headset. "People think I'm talking to myself, people think I'm talking to them, and then it's like, right, I've never heard that 'Star Trek' joke before. But I'd never go back. I love it."
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A wireless headset makes both a fashion statement and a social comment: I'm talking about important things with someone way more fabulous than you.
A wireless headset makes both a fashion statement and a social comment: I'm talking about important things with someone way more fabulous than you.
It looks like a Swiss army knife hooked to his ear lobe.
Someone should tell that guy that he's got a Swiss Army knife clipped to his ear.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
You got me by 15 seconds.
I look like a dork? Aw geez...my life's purpose is to fit the narrow fashion sense of the effete elite!
Bah...fashion ain't nothing but ideas so hideous that they must be changed every six months.
Re: Picture
Ah, the classic glassy-eyed male model mimbo stare...
I am trying to picture it, but I am unable to.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Besides, we already got you subscription to be a Hannity Insider, and a coupon to get every Hannity book that is ever written for free, as your FReeper anniversary present.
oops, it was supposed to be a surprise.
I still have an original antique crank phone hanging in my kitchen.
Could this become the new 'bunny with a pancake on its head'?
"I don't know what you are talking about, so here is a picture >somebody insert picture< of a bunny with a Swiss Army knife clipped to its ear?"
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