PhoneArena - Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 9:54 PM
Check out the trick kids are doing with their AirPods to secretly converse
during class
Little did Apple know that when it released its television ad for the AirPods
entitled "Sway" in 2017, the commercial would lead teens to discover a new way
to communicate with each other in a classroom without the teacher's knowledge.
The ad shows a woman wearing AirPods listening to a song (Palace by Sam Smith)
while dancing in the street. She bumps into a random stranger and takes the
AirPod out of her right ear and puts it in the stranger's right ear so that
both could dance together to the music.
Well, some enterprising kids are now sharing secret messages inside classrooms
by swapping one of their AirPods with a friend's single AirPod. Using a
text-to-speech app, the friends can send gossip back and forth to each other
while their clueless teacher drones on with the day's lessons.
Now we can't promise that swapping AirPods won't lead to an ear infection so
you really should find a gossiping partner with good ear hygiene who doesn't
have a fever or is tugging on their ear every few minutes. Also, it probably is
a good idea to keep the AirPods hidden behind an ample growth of hair.
Otherwise, it might not take long for a teacher to figure out that something
strange is going on.
Grownups can learn a thing or two from their children. During a boring business
meeting, a couple of friends can chat with each other while the boss puts a
room full of executives to sleep.
Kids are swapping AirPods in class then using text to speech to ‘talk’ without
talking pic.twitter.com/moLxK1rzbv
— Gen-Z Trend Alerts (@LouisAnslow) January 21, 2020
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