We can describe the idea in one sentence: an iPod patent that switches output to mono when a pair of earbuds are split between two people.
But how, by gum, to describe the pencil-line freaks of the patent illustration, except through wordless screaming? Befreckled, sloe-eyed moppets struckwith lionitis, then decapitated, their horror-induced rictuses still face-frozen? GAH!
Good lord, Apple. If this is the best you can come up with, no wonder you prefer your iPod models to be well silhouetted.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
