Killer iPods or other gadgets, people tend to ignore these warnings

from jameschip.tumblr.com/ 

I've decided to post something about this topic because its becoming alarming that deaths caused by , not necessarily iPods, but also other media players are rising.

I did a research on some famouse incidents and here is the list:
1. Man killed by a plane while listening to iPod
A man in Georgia who was running on the beach on Hilton Head Island, S.C., listening to his iPod, was struck and instantly killed by an airplane that had lost its propeller and was making an emergency landing.

2. A 46-year-old Sydney woman who walked in front of  speeding ambulance on Saturday night while "reportedly wearing headphones" 

3. Just now , 12-Year-Old Killed by Train While Listening to His iPod 

2-Year-Old boy Caesar Muloki was killed yesterday by a New Jersey Transit train at 3:15pm. According to the train's engineer, Muloki was listening to his iPod and had his back to the train as he crossed the tracks.

and many more.

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Upgrade your iPod touch - a guide from calvin's hub

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Text for free using iPhone + iPod touch

Image taken from itunes store

TextFree by Pinger is one of many free (not free before, was $5.99) texting application that you can find on the app store that will let you send and receive text messages for free. What's unique with this application is that it gives the user a real phone number (to date, pinger has already given more than 1 million numbers). Messages are sent as text messages through the internet and Pinger's server unlike other application whose messages are sent as some form of email or short code.

Only downside of this is that the iPod or iPhone must be connected to internet and there will be a banner of ads displayed on the bottom part of the screen, which according to the users , are hardly noticeable. For now, the coverage are US numbers so this will come in handy only to those who have contact in the US of A.

according to an iPod touch user

To text, she needs to be connected to Wi-Fi (which she says "is basically everywhere"), and she needs to deal with ads bannered across the bottom of the app. (She says she doesn't "even notice.")

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