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By China at 6:51 PM

When I am at school in Indiana most of the year and people ask me where I'm from, the answer Chicago always gets peoples attention. "You're so lucky, you have so many things to do downtown" is something I always hear. This is true. Living in Chicago there are a million things to keep busy, the Taste, shopping, restaurants, baseball games and museums. The one problem though that makes all of those fun things seem less appealing is the traffic. Because of the traffic, a recent law against driving with a cell phone was put in place as a safety measure. People driving downtown are already crazy, cutting people off, swerving like they're the only ones on the road, adding a cell phone only escalates these situations. So headsets seem to be the best solution to this problem. The bluetooth headset is a wireless connection between a mobile phone and the head set. It fits in either one of your ears with an adjustable loop and is convenient as you can answer the phone with one touch of a button then you are hands free until the end of your call. Sony is developing a memory stick called the infostick with built-in Blue tooth capabilities. They have already finished the hardware and are currently developing the software for it. As a technology impaired person, I have to trust the opinions of the person in the technology department. As they explained to me about the Sony memory stick, I wondered why they have to make a special stick just for the blue tooth. Why do we need yet another memory card? Is there a different memory card for every little thing? I know of the SD memory cards and their extension SDHC which have compatibility issues and the multimedia card which sounds to me like it should be the only card and work for every kind of technology, however that is, of course, not the case. People keep developing new and better memory cards for different things, but the public doesn't always have the knowledge to understand what is coming out. They should simplify the technology to make it easier for the consumer. That way when they make laws like the one in Chicago there will be no confusion on what kind of head set device or whatnot to get. Maybe instead of making more types of headsets and memory cards they will develop some way to teleport the person you are calling right into your car so you won't even have to deal with a head set and eliminate half of your problems.