Friday, September 02, 2005
Hope for parents has arrived: iPhune!!
In this case, parents of teenage kids! Scott Ott does it again:
iTunes Phone May Allow Parents to Talk to Teens
iTunes Phone May Allow Parents to Talk to Teens
-- Next week's expected announcement that Apple and Motorola have teamed to produce an iTunes phone, which stores and plays digital music like an iPod, gives hope to parents of teenagers worldwide that they might soon speak with their children again.
Apple and Motorola engineers have labored round the clock for months on the secret project -- code named iPhune -- to find a way to keep a teenager's mind continually awash in popular music and yet still allow occasional interaction with the family, in case of emergency.
"When he's got the iPod on, nothing gets through to him," said one Philadelphia father of a 15-year-old boy. "But if this iTunes phone lets me get inside those earbuds, maybe I'll have a chance. I've been trying for weeks to let him know that Grandma died."
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The new device completely eliminates the hassle of removing earbuds, except for the recommended monthly cleaning.
Future versions of the iPhune are expected to include hydraulic shock absorbers to reduce spinal damage caused by the repetitive stress of bobbing and thrashing the head.
