Sony Ericsson's MS500 Bluetooth speaker makes old people cranky
By Thomas Ricker 
posted March 17th 2009 4:31AM
posted March 17th 2009 4:31AM
posted March 17th 2009 4:31AM
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Hmmm....it's splash-proof. I guess my water balloons won't work too well.
Good to know the guy in the background is excited. :O
What guy? ;)
If I were him, I'd slap that too.
It looks like he's taking a picture
@ KarlW
More like he completely lost it... :P
@rock99, you can tell she's into freaky because even though she's getting spanked, she likes it. Girls like it rough....
OOOHHHHH.... THAT'S what a douche bag looks like!
I remember when Sony had the 'sports' line of walkmen and accessories, that were waterproof. They had a pair of waterproof speakers that were supposed to be used for something just like this.
I bought those speakers so I could listen to music on my bike and still hear the sound of traffic when riding to school. I even played mixtapes on my Walkman to impress a girl that travelled the same route that I did to school. Unfortunately she never got the point of Whitney Houston's 'oh I wanna dance with somebody who loves me' when riding in the rain. Ah...good times.
It seems to make hot chicks stick their butt out at you, too. I'm in!
That's why they should ban two-seats bicycle :Pp
This needs the die.
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"the" works just as well for me. But only if The Die is some kind of long, painful death that includes an entire ship full of these things capsizing because the crew went insane. The reason? They heard Lollipop one too many times.
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whats funny is i didnt read the article but just reading the first 2 comments looks like the consensus is he's checking that ass out. andi was out to comment on the picture myself before even rading the comments.damn...i hate working at night.
The consensus is he's gonna slap that ass :p
I can see it now: sitting on the bus, a blonde teenaged girl with sunglasses as big as her head walks up and sits down. She gets out her speaker... "DON'T CHA WISH YOUR GIRLFRIEND WAS HOT LIKE ME?!?!?!?!" and then you're in jail for seven years for throwing a woman out of a moving vehicle.
Was wondering when someone was going to get to that issue. If I want to listen to your music, I'll go to your party.
Meanwhile, let me drown out your Kanye with my Tool.
Tool is too harmless
Get Slayer. While Dr. Cartman has proven its efficiency against hippies, it also seems to work against gangstas and related bugs.
However unlike hippies they can get agressive when exposed to slayer, when it fails to trigger the excape reaction
Nah, Tool is without a doubt, light years better than Slayer. Though riding around with that speaker blasting Raining Blood would be pretty funny.
@qwert
I see what you did there....excape....lol
I thought it was because you thought she was 18. lol.
Ima get me one of those
they're riding uphill and that dude's leaning backwards and not holding the handlebars
he's about to bust his skull open. should've worn a helmet!
He's about to bust somethin...
He has an Idou. I don't want to know what exiting things he is projecting on that poor girl's butt.
Crap. not that, the other phone. you get it. Good mornig to you.
I'd spank that too :-p
Sony's marketing pics get more and more bizarre each day.
Did anyone notice the speaker in the pic?
Lol!
I did not until you mentioned it and god, is it awfullly big. :o It also looks ridiculous in the image. lol That dangling device will smack the handle bar stem every turn they make.
Sheesh... such a "loud and practical" product by SE and the gang's all about the girl's behind......
Speakers on phones, or small, tinny portable speakers are among the worst inventions of mankind (next to landmines).
I hate it when some asshole kids think they are soooo cool when they annoy the whole train with their stupid gangsta rap.
And you cant even tell them to please turn it of, because they either dont even speak my language, or they give a crap and get violent. I am really thinking about wether i should always carry my ice axes or not
I'm with Qwert... people with terrible taste in music suck all pleasure out of my train rides... but the open air headphones are just as obnoxious. Speakers like this are an annoyance unless used properly.
+1
Your best offense is a good strong fart in their general direction.
Does anyone remember that badass Huffy kids bike that had the speaker in the middle of the handlebars, circa 1992-ish? The whole bike was like lime green with black lightning bolts and a whole bunch of extra badassery, and the radio detached so you could lay out on the front lawn and catch catepillars and burn GI Joes with a magnifying glass while jamming out to Kris Kross.
I had one, obviously, because it was what cool kids did then. I'm gonna go ahead and assume that this is not what cool kids do _now_. Maybe Sony can go ahead and bring back snap bracelets and smell-o-vision, too.
P.S. - while I still can't find a picture, I did come across the patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5159712.html
I'll keep looking, kids!
Helmets, people!
One of them has a helmet.
Is it just me, or did they totally 'Shop that speaker into the picture? It looks way too in focus and perfectly hit by light and perfectly centered to be facing the camera.
totally photoshop'd - the phone also, prolly bought the rights to the pic off some photo repository and went to town from there. The photo repositories save coorps loads of time and cash having to shoot their material
I'm not sure it's completely shopped, see this large version: http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/download/1/613/144/1237191094/MS500_6.jpg
The speaker is shopped, but the strap is real...
More hi-res photos http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/corporate/press/pressreleases/medialibrary?prpage=0&mediaLibraryType=ProductGroupFilter&mediaType=DownloadGeneral&selection=key.AccessoryGroup.MS500
He has a remote pointed at her pelvic region. I'm betting there's a wireless sexual aid in there somewhere. Lucky dude.
He is for sure cheeking her ass.... I'm not sure what he plans to do with the controler...
It looks like he's about to hit dat ass with a taser.
Don't tase me bro
Helmets? Hill? They are going no where... She has both the front and rear brakes clamped down! Funny thing, if you do that, it makes it really hard to pedal or move!
LMAO!! Great observation! HAH!
The headline should read, "... Makes Old People Crankier"