Eve, meet Apple
Well, the world is certainly turning into an interesting place, isn’t it? Stageleft’s admonition to “click a Google ad” led me to this innovative product, the iBod. It enables you to hook up your iPod to a vibrator, which then throbs, pulses and buzzes to the rhythm and intensity of the music. Comes with this handy iGarter “…so that you can easily reach your iPod to control the level and intensity or vibrations.”
My primary interest, of course, was to try to read what music the model was listening to (that would have been your first thought too, right?), but unfortunately there wasn’t enough resolution to the image. It did lead me to ponder, however, just what tunes you WOULDN’T want your random shuffle to play just as you were settling in for a session of…err…music appreciation.
Some nominations for Worst Possible iVibrator Tune:
- Chopin’s Minute Waltz (way too short).
- Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (Yeah, I know, I’m such a guy, all hung up on that completion thing).
- Anything by Yoko Ono.
- Anything sung by monks, because that would just be so wrong. Stuff by THE Monks would be okay.
- The William Tell Overture.
Other nominations?
OhMiBod – http://www.ohmibod.com/
Check out the BodiTalk as well – a whole new way to “reach out and touch someone”.
I note with interest that it’s only available in the smallest sizes, for the Nano and Mini.
You know, on second thought, I don’t think I’ll pursue that any further.
Do you have to *listen* to the music? Because that might change things.
For example, I would rather never hear either Bolero or Paradise by the Dashboard Light ever again, as the sound of them would be a distinct turn off – reminding me of pimply 16 year old boys with a need to be deep bathed in Drakkar Noir – yet both of them do build rather promisingly.
The worst songs may therefore have to both acoustically and rhythmically not-suck: I can think of lots of songs that would be rather boring rhythmically but otherwise a good mood enhancer. Barry White would be rather traditionally that.
That’s a good distinction and a further complication. But Yoko’s still off the list, right?