Ten Fingers, 6 Strings: iPod Will Kill Your Brain

February 03, 2006

iPod Will Kill Your Brain

Certain elements of our society continue to linger in Darwin's waiting room:

Apple Computer’s popular iPod music player was facing a new legal threat after an aggrieved customer filed a class action complaint claiming the comany did not adequately warn customers about the potential for damaging hearing loss from playing its popular music player at full volume. A complaint filed with a California court this week alleged that Apple’s music players were “inherently defective in design” and “not adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss”.
IPods sold in Europe contain software that limits their noise output to 100 decibels, but the complaint alleged that iPods sold in the US can produce sound levels of up to 115 decibels – louder than a helicopter or a jackhammer.

Apple also forgot to mention that their inherently defective design also created severe oxygen shortages in the brain for those who forget to turn the music down when their ears hurt. When the plaintiffs were asked what they were planning on doing about that, they sat there drooling in a semi-conscious coma, wondering what time it was for dinner, and if they left the gas on before leaving the house.

Posted by 10 fingers 6 strings at February 3, 2006 04:55 PM | TrackBack

Comments

I'll always remember when my (spoiled) childhood friend put the orange-foamed headphones of his shiny new Sony Walkman on my head in 1980: music! In my brain!

And, as I recall, there were idiots trying to sue Sony for the same damn thing back then.

My solution?

Chopsticks through the eardrums.

Posted by: Ian Wood at February 3, 2006 09:40 PM

I am loving the phrase "Darwin's waiting room". So appropriate. :)

Posted by: Jayne at February 6, 2006 12:08 PM