iPod on NY streets..

The ever changing technology is churning out newer and newer gadgets by the day. What is hip today, is a goner tomorrow. In this mercurial age, iPod has been able to hold its own. Designed and marketed by Apple Computers, they are a type of digital audio players which can store up to 20,000 songs, up to 25,000 photos, and up to 100 hours of video - or any combination of each.(Source Apple Computers)




You can watch the latest movies (by buying them at the iTunes Store), download TV episodes, new iPod games, audio books and lots of free podcasts. They have been such a craze with the younger generation that many colleges offer their courses as podcast, straight into your iPod! Although this has already led to concerns.

Some days back Wallmart also launched an online movie download store where it plans to sell movies and television episodes. It intends to compete with Apple with its "cheap" prices.

Now iPod has run into rough weather with the NY state senator Carl Kruger planning to introduce a legislation that will impose fines of $100 on anyone caught using a cell phone, portable music player or video game system (read iPod) in a New York crosswalk.
This comes in the wake of death of two pedestrians who died while crossing a street and could not heed to the warnings of bypassers because they were listening to music.

"You can't be fully aware of your surrounding if you're fiddling with a BlackBerry, dialing a phone number, playing Super Mario Brothers on a Game Boy or listening to music on an iPod,If you want to listen to your iPod, sit down and listen to it," Kruger declared.



"You want to walk in the park, enjoy it. You want to jog around a jogging path, all the more power to you, but you should not be crossing streets and endangering yourself and the lives of others", he said while taking an aim at the "iPod oblivion".

"Tuning in and tuning out can be a fatal combination on the streets of New York," he concluded.

But if this legislation becomes a law it can become very difficult to enforce on the streets on NY. With most of the users of iPod coming from a young age group, a large resistance is expected to the move.