Word: headset
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...football, the real game is on the sidelines. There the head coach paces, barking orders into his headset, congratulating or chastising a player, wearing a sociopath's stern face as he silently prays he'll be baptized by a tub of Gatorade in the final minute of a winning game. The coach is a chess demon, planning dozens of gambits that depend on whether his quarterback throws for a big gain or gets sacked. He is a video-game whiz kid, and the playing field is his Grand Theft Auto Vice City. He is a field marshal and, sometimes...
...turned their attention to another industry: telephony. The duo's new creation is known as Skype, and they hope it will do for phone calls what Kazaa, which lets millions of users get songs for free, did for file sharing. Download Skype's software www.skype.com and buy a $15 headset, and you can make free phone calls worldwide to anyone else who has installed Skype. Like Kazaa, the system has no central servers, instead harnessing all the network's computers, or nodes, to handle routing, processing and call encryption. While the most obvious drawback is that you can only call...
...never hit the dizzying heights of American Idol, but Karaoke Revolution (PlayStation 2, $69.99 with headset) is compensation enough--and easily the most original and fun game of the year. In 2001's cult hit Dance Dance Revolution, players stomped on a dance mat in time to the beat; this sequel exercises your vocal cords via a plugged-in microphone. Singing on key couldn't be easier: an arrow shows the pitch of your voice, while a scrolling bar shows the pitch of the song you selected. Just match the two. Do so consistently, and the onscreen crowd goes wild...
...side effect of America’s burgeoning cell phone culture is that millions of people walk the streets every day talking to themselves. Especially with the absurdity that is the “hands-free” cell phone headset, cell phone users often look like raving lunatics and/or complete tools...
Kristin E. Kitchen ’03 is an History of Art and Architecture concentrator living in Winthrop House. Her campus phone number is 3-3333. No joke! And please don’t get her started on those people who use headset phones...