http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 9th 2008 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
I actually had a jackass come in and bitch me out because there wasn't a sign posted with the headphones saying that it was illegal in this state to drive wearing headphones. Of course he had, and got a ticket ... and he was mad enough to come in and complain that we didn't have a sign to notify him of it.

I immediately ran to housewares and hid all the signs stating, "shaving with a steak knife can kill you." I waited and waited for him to buy ... no luck.

Seriously why do we try to fight Darwinism so hard? ]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
Anyway, considering the default iPod earbuds don't block *any* external noise, I fail to see the problem. Of course, if you regularly set the volume to the max you might have a problem hearing an incoming van, but then you are probably half deaf by now and wouldn't hear it without them anyway... ;-)]]>Jan 8th 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
(And she dies from the heart attack)]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
Nothing to worry about kids, this is all just a hoax.

*completely missed the point*

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Let me get this straight. They want to stop us from listening to music as we cross the streets? So we have music on from corner to corner, then pause it while crossing and repeat this process for however long your walk requires? Err, how about HELLZ NO. What's the point of having a PMP if you aren't going to use them while traveling?

How about instead of scaring kids, telling them if you listen to an iPod while crossing the street, you'll die (which is, however, a pretty damn good basis of an urban legend, however) you tell them to look both ways?

The people who are too involved in their music to look both ways would probably be as absent-minded without their music. Result: instead of an artistic death, with the headphones acting as a chalk outline, we'll just have another corpse. Don't know about you guys, but I like art and music.]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
Now if I'm downtown crossing with 20 other people, I wouldn't bother at all. ]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
Yes, it's called a car. Perhaps the ads should focus on the people controlling fast-moving tons of metal a bit more?]]>Jan 8th 2008 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
What's more likely? That people die in crosswalks because they can't hear, or because they were stupid/absent-minded/generally unlucky?]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
LOL, JK. Anyways, yeah, I think this is stupid, I listen to my Zune sometimes when I'm in the streets, I've never been hit (I actually look both ways!)]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
in b4 an hero]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Sounds like Darwin has been busy
]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
"The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race."]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
The better question is, why wouldn't they use an iPod? ]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
If anything, it's mostly the driver's fault... that said, I watched a 12 year old get hit in September because she didn't look both ways... and she wasn't listening to music.]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/]]>Jan 8th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 9th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 10th 2008 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/When I was in NY a few weeks back I often thought there were going to be an epidemic of people getting killed while wrapped in the display of their handheld gizmo.]]>Jan 9th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 8th 2008 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.amazon.com/Sony-MDR-Q22LP-Headphones-Interchangeable-Headphone/dp/B00008VIX2/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_1_2]]>Jan 9th 2008 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
Hmm, maybe he's ducking as to not get hit by incoming old hardware.]]>Jan 9th 2008 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/
1) Walk to the intersection.
2) Press the button thingy.
3) Wait. Listen to iPOD while waiting.
4) When you see the symbol that looks like some dude walking (maybe they should redo them to look like a dude where an iPOD), LOOK around... then start walking.
5) WHILE walking across the intersection, keep looking around.

What a concept huh!?

Just wasted money on an advertisement, when they should be advertising to these walking Darwin awards that should ONLY cross at the intersections when it is safe to do so.

I mean, even BLIND and DEAF people can cross at intersections every single day without getting hit.

Apparently it's STUPID people that are getting hit.]]>Jan 9th 2008 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 9th 2008 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 9th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 9th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/clever-ad-depicts-ipod-deaths-look-both-ways-kids/Jan 9th 2008 10:42AM