Jason Dunn
10-18-2007, 06:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er88.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er88.aspx</a><br /><br /></div>I've never had any dealings with the folks at Etymotic, and while I'm sure their headphones are impressive, I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I saw this ad on another Web site:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/etymotic-300x250_1206-a.jpg" /><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er88.aspx">ety8 headphones</a> might sound amazing for all I know, but they look too much like big, clunky earrings for me to ever be comfortable wearing them out in public. When I saw them my first thought was of Star Trek, and not in a good way - if I geek like me gets a negative impression from that, then on the street it could only be worse.<br /><br />It's kind of ridiculous that the leading MP3 players (iPod, Zune, Sansa) still don't have Bluetooth built-in - yet with Bluetooth designs like this, maybe it's not so surprising...