@WestwoodDenizen: No point in easy rinsing if you haven't actually properly washed it to begin with, which is harder with two caps and sets of threads to scrub. If rinsing is all you are interested in you can just shake water in it.

This seems practical at first, but then you realize you have more parts and crevices to clean, and both holes are too small to get your hand in with a sponge so you *still* need a bottle brush to clean it.

@parachoid:

I have a hard time believing there were 1.5 **million** of these phones in 1964.

@Zinger314:

"provided that your source material is decent, even spending $100 can make a world of difference. Yes, sometimes it's hard to resist a clever design, or sleek packaging . But the law of diminishing returns is in your favor. Make the jump from a $20 earphone to a $100 one from a reputable company and you'll hear what…

Oh, good grief. Get this woman some talcum powder. Problem solved.

@Buzz Mega:

Well, I always wondered what "tit for tat" actually meant. Now I guess I know: tat = around 300 euros. =:-o

@badasscat:

@CaptainJack:

@CaptainJack:

All these fancy lab shots suggest to me is that Apple has **no excuse** for the antenna grounding issue in the iPhone 4.

@onNon:

@Geraldo Rivera's Mustache:

Also, what are the rules for comment promotion by the post authors or other interested parties?

After having read the whole post about what not to do I now see that nobody has commented yet. I am sorely tempted towards something I never do, to wit: making that obnoxious, banworthy and often erroneously presumptuous one-word exclamatory post. I'll resist the urge :-)

@ryoshi: Use a one-off credit card number. Banks like Bank of America's online banking will generate one-off numbers for you to use with the credit limit and expiration date you specifiy.

The main question is do these work as advertised? I'm a tad suspicious of the marketing claims that the noise cancellation tubes "attract" sound and "form a vacuum that pulls harmful sounds away". But vacuum and compression are how compressional sound waves in air work. So I can't dismiss the idea out of hand.

"Dr. Jozef Zwislocki, an audio researcher, came up with the new technique that uses a simple amplifier "