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So for any of us who had any doubts as to the technology market of today being driven by sexual desire instead of real utility or imagined usefulness, here's a great story for the 18 and over crowd. While test driving Apple's latest incarnation of the iPod, Lev Grossman of Time Magazine says:

"For a device ostensibly created to be listened to, it is suspiciously good-looking. It's so teensy and glossy and perfect, you want to put it in your mouth like a hard candy."

What was that Lev? It came across kinda muffled. I think you had something in your mouth...

It seems like buying devices such as this one has less and less to do with needs, use, or looks. More and more we are trained to lust after machines before we buy them. Nothing like 21st century homoerotic robot lovin'. And I don't think many of us are innocent of at least some of this kind of repressed attraction.