Invasion of the iPod listeners

what's funny is to see teenagers driving around in fully-crappy cars with white little headphones on. they don't have enough for a car stereo or to replace the dented side fender, but 'hey! i got my iPod!'

I agree with jjvw, chicago is full of them. In my last 7 days stay there i noticed that there actually are more people wearing the white earbuds than other ones. New york comes quite close to that. This is actually making me a little uneasy. Think different, uh? ;) m

I commute to NYC from connecticut...on the train I see easily 10 people with iPods and those are only the people in my train!

Sydney is iPodded out. It's just ridiculous how many people on the way to and from work are rockin' them. Was stoked to see someone pull out a first gen 5gb the other day too.

London is definitely getting overrun.

In Austin, they're everywhere. I've spotted nine or ten at the office (counting mine). The Town Lake trail seems to be full of iPod mini listeners, and every coffee shop seems to have several of one variety or another.

Melbourne is FULL of iPods. On the trains, on the streets, everywhere. I went into an audio shop to buy some new earbuds and there were a group of 'trendy' women asking about iPods. Slowly but surely they're working their way through our office too.

UCLA is full of iPods. The white headphones were very popular at the beginning of the year, but now people seem to think it's cool to wear lightweight supra-aural (sit on top of the ear) headphones, like the Sony ones. My Sennheiser DJ 'phones are a bit heavy (and block out too much sound) to wear around campus, so I'll stay w/ the white 'buds.

London, baby!

Well I'm in the Hague (The Netherlands) and up until the beginning of 2004 i never saw another pair of white headphones - not once that i can remember. I then went to Indonesia for 6 months last year, and when I cam back in August I was shocked... white headphones everywhere!