Music Changed Forever?

Posted by Zealot on Sep 21, 2009

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mh907_black …Only if you have a Sony Ericsson phone, and even then not so much.

Sony Ericsson has been been saying for a couple weeks that they had an announcement that was going to “change the way you listen to music forever.” What they actually announced were…well…ear buds.

Admittedly, pretty cool ear buds. They are MH907 “Motion Activated” headphones. What that means is that they use your skin as sort of a giant capacitor so that when you have both headphones in, the music plays. When you remove one, the music pauses and you can use the headset for phone calls. Hang up, put the other earbud back in, the music starts up again. Neat, right?

Main problem as far as I am concerned is that as far as I know, they are only usable with Sony Ericsson phones that have their Fast Port technology. No word if there is anyway to use them with any other devices. If I could use them in an MP3 players, for example, I would get them just for the ability to pause automatically by removing one. I wonder if they could work other controls in there somewhere? Open your mouth wider, the music gets louder? Slap your chest to skip forward? Grab your crotch to load your Michael Jackson tribute playlist?

Hopefully if this technology does indeed work, we will see it in other products down the line.

Here is the little promotional video Sony Ericsson released for the MH907 headphones. If you are into watercolor psychedelia or want tips on how to use earphones to annoy scary giants on the train, then enjoy.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, HP Mini 311, iPod Touch 3G, iPad 16G or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Wil Wheaton!).

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  • http://twitter.com/ikepigott/status/4150289801 Ike Pigott

    @griner – Did you see the video linked to this? http://j.mp/6xvT6

  • http://twitter.com/csrock2138/status/4148129002 csrock

    Music Changed Forever? http://bit.ly/2IJdgY

  • mp3_telechargement

    Hello,
    I have no information, but I'm sure the headphones will work with other devices. It would be such a loss for Sony otherwise… (and for us too)

    P

  • mp3_telechargement

    Hello,
    I have no information, but I'm sure the headphones will work with other devices. It would be such a loss for Sony otherwise… (and for us too)

    P

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