Sony Ericsson Releases Motion-Censored Earbuds

In this episode of CNET loaded, Sony Ericsson releases motion-censored earbuds, Google Earth makes you an oceanographer, and how to tell someone's sexual orientation over Facebook.

Sony Ericsson Releases Motion-Censored Earbuds Sony Ericsson releases motion-censored earbuds. Sony brings its music to any street and how to tell someone sexual orientation over Facebook or maybe, how not to do that. It’s Tuesday, September 22nd. I’m Natali Del Conte and it’s time to get loaded. As expected, the Federal Communications Commission discussed anew plan for net neutrality on Monday. FCC Chair Julius Genachowski proposed two new tenants of net neutrality. The first would prevent internet access providers from discriminating against particular content or applications while allowing for reasonable network management. The second would insure that internet access providers are transparent about the network management practices that they implement. He was careful to point out that these new principles are not designed to slow innovation in the digital world and that these rules apply across mediums, broadband, mobile and satellite. Maggie Reardon has more in depth article about this proposal. To read it in full, visit news.com. Sony Ericsson unveiled a new set of earbuds that stop playing music when you pulled them out of your ears. This is kind of cool. The MH907 will automatically turn off your music when an earbud is removed from your ear. When you put it back, the music will start back up again. The same motion can also initiate and end calls if connected to a phone. We don’t know how much these will cost just yet but I like it. It means I don’t have to pause my MP3 player when someone tries to talk to me. Although, when I have earbuds in my ears kind of I don’t like to be talked to. It’s you! That’s Yahoo’s new ad campaign slogan. The company CEO Carol Bartz is calling this a repositioning of Yahoo. But I’m not exactly sure what it is. Is Yahoo me and therefore, am I Yahoo? Not sure I want to be Yahoo. Or is it the anthropomorphism of my online life in which case I am my digital self. It’s you, very existential. If you live in Charlotte, North Carolina, you might be able to get legitimate 3G speeds on AT&T with the new 3G MicroCell. This device piggy backs the broadband in your home to give you HSDPA 3G speeds. It cost $150.00 and the service is free but it better be you’re already paying for a 3G phone and your home broadband, wouldn’t it just be nice if you didn’t need this though and 3G was really 3G? You can now synch your MySpace page to your Twitter feed. This means that your MySpace status update will be whatever you’re posting on Twitter. Currently, I have this synched to happen on my Facebook page and linked it up to MySpace page yesterday. One cool thing about this is that it’s a two-way synch. So whatever you post in MySpace can be post to your Twitter feed as well. Nefty. Chrysler is going to be the first auto maker to provide digital owner’s manuals for all 2010 cars. This means no 5-pound manual taking up space in your glove compartment. The company estimates that this could save 930 tons of paper or the equivalent of 20,000 trees per year. Instead, drivers looking to figure out how to open the gas tank will be able to refer to a DVD and full color printer user guide that will be no longer than 80 pages. I say they put these things online too. Although, who really reads their owner’s manual? Sony is going to start selling it’s music on Amie Street, a music discovery and purchase site. Sounds will be priced at $0.69, $0.99 or $1.29 based on popularity. Amie Street doesn’t normally price music this way. They have a tiered pricing scheme where the most popular songs are the cheapest and the price rises the more the song is downloaded. I guess Sony doesn’t want to play that game with it’s music so it’s going to set it’s own pricing rules. I’m slightly surprised that Amie would allow this but in the end, I guess not all that surprised. Experimenting with pricy models is appropriate at the stage of the game. Can you tell someone sexual orientation from their Facebook page? I’m not talking about the interested in section, I’m talking about using statistical friend analysis. Two MIT| students claim that you can. Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree conducted a study which they are calling Gaydar. They scanned the friend list of over 1500 students. They found that homosexual men have more gay friends than straight men. So if you have a lot of gay friends, you must be gay. That is not reveting research. Those are all your headlines for today. Thank you for watching. I’ll see you tomorrow with more. I’m Natali Del Conte with CNET TV and you’ve just been loaded.