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Fashion - not only clothes but also gadgets

Sun, 2006-08-13 09:50 — susnyrop

In todays skype cast, we had a conversation about fashion; I came in pretty late. During some speculations about young people being much aware of current fashion trends in clothing, and a world wide alikeness of clothes with some recent shopping experiences from different cities, I saw a parallel chat started in the text chat room, about some issues on the new playstation commercial (being accused of racism). And then, we tuned in on what's trendy and fashion in the gadget world, exemplified by the iPod hype, with Levi's jeans made for wearing your iPod, Nike running shoes with a training program for the iPod. We then turned the scope of our conversation from clothes to more generally speaking, electronic gadgets and the fascination of "wearables", containers, protections and extra add-ons for iPods & other mp3 player types, and the functionality issues (or lack of same).

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Sun, 2006-08-13 12:09 — susnyrop

iPods are cute appealing to my inner doll house aficionado

As I've been discussing an issue of clumsily entangled wires and ear phones earlier in a Danish podcast with Karin Hoegh on http://www.podjournalen.dk episode#1, I wanted to hear where people are placing the ear phones with wires when they do not listen to their iPod. This appears to be a real little problem!

After Karin had challenged me jokingly to find a solution for this and I came up with different ways of using velcro straps, I made a photo session starring my iPod in different cute situations with doll's house furniture and playmates mini sized. I'm blogging a bit (in Danish) about this so called poddy training - and in PodJournalen.dk episode#2 I was interviewed in more details and more professionally relevant - about how to motivate and encourage people who are unfamiliar with podcasting, to become listeners.

Tue, 2006-08-15 00:11 — Graham

iPods & wires

Thanks for sharing this with us Sus - I don't have an iPod, but I do use a Creative Zen vision, and I usually wrap the wire around the machine (it's not very elegant, I know, but at least it stops the wire from tangling up) - I also have another set of ear buds though, and they come with a special round case that lets me wind the wire up inside - this is a great idea.

I do remember seeing your photos, though, and they are great - a very inventive way of dealing with the problem!