Carlo's sound-isolating mobile handsfree kit exclusive

Carlo over at MobHappy, has seen all the sights.

He lives in Las Vegas. Not in sin-city itself, but a few miles outside. We met up a good few times during CTIA — it was at the Microsoft party when he announced he was getting married. I didn’t know this. Impending congratulations, Carlo.

Living in Las Vegas, Carlo is, I imagine, no longer phased by drugged-up-lions-in-cages, or ultra fake Gondoliers sailing up and down ultra fake rivers in shopping malls (The Venetian Hotel).

He was surprised recently though — by this exclusive he witnessed.

I’ll let him describe.

One of my favorite email forwards from my early working career was “the ghetto hands-free kit” — a picture of a dude with an old handset attached to his head via rubber band. I saw an older fellow at the grocery store just now with a slightly updated (and slightly more expensive) version: a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones with a clamshell handset tucked underneath. He was happily walking amongst the produce, chatting away with his hands in his pockets. Just to reiterate: the Boses were, as far as I could tell, not plugged in to anything (certainly not the phone), rather just switched on to “cancel” the ambient noise.

Since Carlo didn’t manage to capture the experience live with his N82, he’s recreated it thus:

Smart!

By the way if you’d like some stupid ‘cell phone’ joke pictures, check out this page. (One of the images on the page isn’t quite safe for work), most are fairly humorous. I quite like the redneck camera phone (fourth down).