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earphones are not only used for our own pleasure only, they even have political and governmental purpose. everyone has seen undercover detectives or the FBI wearing them when solving a case.

http://www.earinc.com/p2-specialty-teleprompter.php

you have the skeleton- style earpiece which are used by the FBI and for undercover work by detectives. Also used by anchor persons and reporters ( when they receive breaking news while reporting live)

they allow for two-way radio communication. they are made transparent with no colour so to seem invisible when a person either undercover or not wearing them can seem as though they are not wearing them to the other person

It is so amazing how this technology transcends the limitations of fashion by making its use for life changing purposes. when you think about it almost everywhere you may look people are using either headphones of earpieces for some reason. E.g the pilot, the call centre operator, the body guard, the security, etc

This technology has made communication faster, cheaper and less time consuming and less edited ( meaning that you can say what you want to say immediately without thinking about it and doubting it, the sensation of the massage is all there)

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http://images.google.co.za/images?q=earphone+pics&ndsp=20&um=1&hl=en&start=40&sa=N

On the 17th of March as we all know the UKZN strike started. Thank God I have, yes, my earphones. You wonder why i say this, well firstly I was terribly frustrated that we were kicked out of the LAN and the Library yesterday. In order to deceive my fellow African students I joined the strike ( to make myself seem less of a traitor) but in mind I was not there, I had my earphones to calm me down because I was thinking about the assignment I was suppose to do.

Another interesting thing is that I could hear news reports about the strike while I was in the strike. It was so interesting to hear the radio news reporter report very edited things about the strike while I knew and was experiencing the whole full thing.

So either escaping a situation with you earphones you can also have the advantage of hearing news reports early than many people who would wait till the 7pm news to get the latest scoop. Radio news is more current than television news, so listening wearing your earphones doesn't mean you are listening music only, but the individual might be also listening to the radio and the news which normally come on hourly.

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Just a quick interesting history about this wonderful media technology, the picture above is taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headphones. These are radio head phones from 1919. Very incredible , it reminds you of the headphones that DJ's normally use. the latest is the one on the right

The styles of headphones has changed dramatically. Recently I saw headphones that had a small mic on them, they are used when you are recoding yourself maybe on a track. Not only are there two piece earphones, but there are One earpiece earphones, which I have, and extremely loud. From that to the smallest earpiece, which is about 6mm width, 6mm height. This magnificent technology is used mostly for audio security,audio surveillance, conferencing, law enforcement, gaming, cheating( which is extremely wrong though) and for spying techniques.

headphones have always been used for recording in the studio purpose.....looking at old movies of old musicians you see them wearing headphones when recording, even now they are still used.

So it is clear that like the Pair of jeans, the headphones/earpiece is never going to be out of style instead they will evolve and improve with time and will be there from generation to the next generation

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WOW........i can actually survive a whole boring church service, an irritating lecture, oh and not forgetting ignoring the world around me.

Yep i hear all these things all the time. wow! even i feel like this sometimes. I think one of the best things that has ever happened to technology was the earpiece. be it the earpiece of you phone, ipod, pocket radio or CD walk man ( if there are still people who carry those), the earphones are radical

the deceit they have, not only that but they are very stylish to...., i know people who wear them without actually listening to anything

all in all the earphones allows you to escape to a whole new world. can be hypnotising though after a while.. I heard some one saying yesterday that this technology can effect your learning capabilities in a way that because you are constantly listening to music your brain starts to absorb some slang which then you use subconsciencly when you write you assignments. Not only assignments but important documents, now anyone doing their honours can tell you that the use of slang will definitely give your chances of passing a huge dent.