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Thursday, May 6, 2010

To dream the impossible dream: wireless earphones

Funny, actually. A couple of years ago the great magazine on IT and lifestyle, Bright, had some kind of contest on applications or tools that its readers thought had to be invented. The result was a wishlist containing ideas like wireless electricity, flexible screens and the like. We are talking 2006. I suggested wireless earphones and got selected in the list.

Last night I attended another great BGGD 27 in Antwerp, courtesy of Sony Ericsson, where a new generation phones was presented: the impressive Xperia 10 and it's xperia 10 mini version, along with some background features information. In the wake of this BGGD 27 Sony organizes a contest through which we can win one.All we have to do is post a new idea on se.dot and hope for the best.


And guess what: 4 years later we still don't have wireless earphones. As Sony is first and foremost connected to music (after all, they did invent the Walkman), I thought relaunching this idea would be kinda fun. And somewhere in the back of my mind, I still can't believe that wireless earphones haven't been invented yet. I must be missing something.

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