It's not the sound of the ocean that this woman is listening to at CES -- no, it's her iPod! The ice bucket she is holding is one she borrowed from her Las Vegas hotel room. That little thing stuck on the end is the Rock-It, a device that creates vibrations to amplify the sound from an MP3 player so that almost any such object can be used as a makeshift amplifier.
She and another woman demonstrated the device at the OrigAudio booth, sticking the business-end of the Rock-It to plastic water bottles and cardboard boxes, demonstrating the ability to pump up the volume of their little music player.
At that point, I saw the opportunity to take a funny photo, with her holding up the bucket to her ear like a tin can on a string, and she gladly complied. That's the fun thing about being a photojournalist -- you can get almost anybody to do almost anything you want them to do.
But now that I think about it, I feel a little bad. She was friendly and helpful, and I took advantage of her like that.
But look at it like this -- if I hadn't seen a funny photo opportunity, I wouldn't have taken the picture. And I wouldn't have posted it to this website. And you wouldn't have read about this otherwise useful product. So perhaps I'm doing them a little good. In fact, I urge you to check out the Rock-It at the OrigAudio website. If you decide to buy, enter the promo code Plugtouchrock to get 20 percent off your order.
Now I don't feel so bad.
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