iPods make you deaf
Ivan | Tue, 2009-09-22 12:33
For Deaf Awareness Week, DDB New Zealand has produced a series of posters highlighting the damage Mp3 players can inflict on young ears, directing people to saveyourhearing.org.nz.
The posters look just like the famous colorful iPod posters, but instead of the iconic white earphones the silhouettes wear white hearing aids. The posters read: "Mp3 players do permanent damage to young ears. Check your volume leveles at saveyourhearing.org.nz"
iPods are really dangerous, you apparently you not only go deaf using them, but you can even die as demonstrated in this previously posted campaign from the Australian Police.
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iPods don't make people deaf. People make people deaf. :p
Okay. It's a good awareness campaign. Especially for those of us who love to blast their music. I try to keep the volume below the half-way mark on my iPhone.
Obviously, iPods aren't the only thing out there that can contribute to deafness. Sitting in a car with the bass so loud is rattles your ribcage is a good way to do it... and standing much too close to the 10-foot tall speaker setups at a concert can do it, too (I learned that the hard way after attending a concert a long time ago... my ears were ringing a good hour after leaving the concert... unfortunately whatever part of my hearing that was damaged wasn't the part that would help me tune-out whining children on airplanes.)
It's a wonder no one has called them on the look yet. Had a client once who got in a lot of trouble just because their company name was a play upon another's.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos.
TV can make you dumb
Cars can kill the driver
We always need to alert people BUT
sensationalism can make you hypochondriac
Look more like bluetooth headsets. . .
"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda
I didn't actually 'get it' at first... I too thought they were bluetooth headsets.
Nice colour pallet, none the less.
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WHAT DID YOU SAY! I had my Ipod turned up.