A new theory which recently surfaced on the Internet, suggests that iPods might actually use something called technology to work. The site, conveniently named howstuffworks, pushes its claims as far as having taken one apart (awe!) I consider myself a fairly decent technician, which is odd since in all the years since the iPod has existed, I never managed to actually take one apart properly. Sure I’ve broken several, rendering them useless pieces of colorful plastic, metal and lithium-ion batteries, but properly taken one apart? Never.
That fact had me convinced that since I couldn’t take it apart to explain how it worked, it had to be powered by magic. After all, there exists an old adage which states that what we can’t explain, must be thereby assumed to be magic. This applied to several things throughout history; The pyramids are still thought by many as having been created by using magical forces from outer space. Some other unexplainable artifacts such as the Persian prehistorical batteries, that some scientists use to prove that Persians invented the battery several millennia before Alessandro Volta did in 1800 must have seemed like magical to them. But then the question arises, what exactly were Persians of around 2200 years ago planning to use them for? It’s not like they had invented the light bulb, toaster or anything else electric. Just some batteries, and not even that many at that.
They definitely did not invent the iPod. The thought occurs, if you look closely at the Persian batteries, they are basically urns with an anode and cathode, so what happens if you pour something acidic like say, vinegar in there? Wouldn’t it “tingle” on your tongue, in the same way a proper 9v Eveready battery does? (try it, I dare you) What if this was some kind of a fashion that a local bistro, in 200 BC Persia was trying to launch?
We’ll never know for sure since nobody that was around then, is still around today. And the same goes for the iPod, there are millions in circulation, but the Android phone, an all in one solution, is about to render them all obsolete, gone the way of the Dodo bird, Television and FM radio. Especially FM radio. In fact though, we don’t know for sure that iPods will be rendered obsolete.
What we do know for sure however, is that they blend.
