unmanned, remote controlled.....that would be the answer.

Bradshaw is an excellent film critic, but this is some baffling bullshit. But please don't judge his film criticism based on this. He really is a very good film critic.

I live in India and I don't know how this whole "contract" system in the US functions. In India almost all phones are unlocked (except...hold your breath....the iphone). So are they actually that stupid? do they terminate your contract for 175 USD? then what happens? how much more would it cost you to have it unlocked?

This is seriously a craptastic idea. But then again, there have been even sillier marketing gimmicks that have succeeded.

I use the Transcend T610, 2 GB......all the Transcends are dirt cheap, have decent sound quality.

I'd call them saboteurs...vandals is too cute....and terrorist is a bit alarmist.....

surely you mean "the prize"

hey Kevin, these Audio-Technicas are noise cancelling as well....and they do the NC as well as the Bose headphones, and they are comparable in terms of comfort.

hey Kevin, I've actually done a side by side comparison (my dell laptop has two headphone sockets) of the Bose and the Audio-Technica headphones, and while the Bose gives a slight mid-bass bump to the sound, so rock and pop sound a bit nicer.....in terms of clarity and detail the ATs blew them away....and I am not exaggerating here.....do try out a comparison and see for yourself.....in complex material such as Deep Purple's "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" with ATs you could tell every layer of instrumentation apart, whereas it was all a muddy sort of mess with the Bose headphones.....and listening to a Sheffield Labs test CD, it was very clear that across the frequency spectrum the Bose could not come close to the ATs in terms of the quality of reproduction and the clarity...

hey Adam, I agree with the principle of what you've set out, but I've done side-by-side comparisons of noise isolating earphones and the active noise cancelling headphones, and the amount of noise cut out by the headphones is a discernible few notches greater than the noise-isolating ones, and in terms of coloration in the audio reproduction, while Bose adds a bit of a mid-bass bump....the Audio-Technica phones are dead-on accurate and beautifully detailed....do give them a listen at least....see if you like it....