As soon as Pete Townshend weighed in on the subject, we knew it was coming: a Louisiana man has sued Apple, not for an iPod actually damaging his hearing, but because they potentially could. The story’s over at Consumer Affairs:
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Morning Deals Round Up
By 2.3.06
• Having just received a very nice set of DeWalt tools for our birthday, we have no need of Amazon’s Two-Day Tool Sale. We remain intrigued, however, by a coupon code that works just for ladders: $50 off $250 code LADDER50 and $25 off $125 code LADDER23.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 2.2.06
• We’ve suggested it before but we’re suggesting it again: Groundhog Day is perhaps the best movie ever made.
Bribe Your Senator With An iPod!
By 2.1.06
Upon being purchased an iPod by his daughter, Alaskan / octogenarian Senator Ted Stevens suddenly came around on the concept of fair use. So taking their cue from Senator Stevens’ conversion, iPaction.org has started a campaign to buy every senator who has a say in legislation affecting technology a brand new video iPod. The theory is that a brand-new iPod loaded with “public domain content, Creative Commons content, and audio messages about the importance of balanced copyright policy” is going to sway our lawmakers into a more lenient view of consumers’ media rights than the RIAA-propaganda they are currently being lobby-fed.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 1.24.06
Not only are we off to a late start this morning, but qksrv.net, which many deals sites use to handle affiliate links, is down, making the pickings especially slim today.
Consumers Speak: Where’s My iPod Settlement?
By 1.23.06
Robin G. writes:
So, the Apple iPod Settlement website FAQ said there would be a result by September 20th 2005, but the front page now says that on December 22nd 2005 the settlement is final and it’s just a case of the Settlement Administrator moving forward with “claims administration and claims fulfillment.”
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 1.5.06
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Pete Townshend Says iPods WILL Make You Deaf
By 1.4.06
On the weighty topic of ear buds causing deafness, Pete Townshend has offered up his luminous thoughts.
NewerTech RoadTrip! FM Transmitter Kills iPod
By 1.3.06
It’s bad when purchased electronics don’t work—it’s even worse when they kill one’s precious iPod. Eric Mortensen had a suspiciously bad run of luck with NewerTech’s RoadTrip! FM transmitter for the iPod not once, but three times. The first one took a dive and killed his iPod, as well, probably because it plugs into the dock port of the MP3 player into his car’s power outlet.
McSweeney’s Looks at the iPod Zepto
By 1.2.06
This is a tad old, but if you’re upset about not being able to find that coveted 4GB iPod Nano?? for Christmas, this prophetic look at the upcoming iPod Zepto (pictured: left) may put your consumerist fury in perspective.
Ear Bud Headphones Causing Deafness
By 12.29.05
Apparently, ear bud style headphones are causing people in their early twenties to suffer the sort of hearing impairment that typically afflicts codgery octogenarians with bronze hearing conches sticking out of their ears.
From the ‘Get What You Ask For’ Files
By 12.27.05
In fairness, peace on earth would totally obviate that iPod U2 Edition. Sunday, Pleasant Sunday.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 12.8.05
• We have been informed that Express’s Annual $20 off all jeans sale begins today, and according to their website, that is totally true. However, we have also been informed that this sale “historically never includes the ones embellished with $100’s worth of rhinstones on the ass.”
