Sure. It is not much of a secret. You are very much attached to your iPod. You even have a hard time detaching it from yourself when you are about to go to sleep or when you have to take a bath. And because your iPod is already a part of your system, you would oftentimes be found searching for the best iPod general accessories online to go with your nifty little gadget.

But it does look like things are going to change, especially if you are that kind of iPod user who still has got the earphones plugged in even if you are crossing the street. You see, one lawmaker from New York wants to ban the use of the iPod for those people who are crossing the street. He does strongly believe in this, that is Senator Carl Kruger from the state of New York. And as because of this, he had sent up a new kind of legislation which then calls for the banning of the usage of portable electronic devices for people when they are crossing any street.

The list of these ?portable electronic devices? includes the much popular iPod, your mobile phone, any media player or music player, and gaming units like the PSP perhaps. However, the list does not end there. As long as you are using an electronic device that is portable, that is going to lead you into trouble. And that trouble is quite expensive ? a $100 fine a plus a summons from the criminal court. You would not want that, would you?

Such a legislation may sound quite crazy for most people who love their iPods but you see, Senator Kruger has got his own reasons why he has introduced the legislation. He believes that by banning portable electronic devices when people are crossing the street could actually save more lives than one may actually think so. You see, the iPod could actually block out the sounds of the vehicles from both your sides and you may never realize it when one vehicle may be rushing out at you with its horns blaring. You never were able to hear it because your iPod was blaring out quite loud - too loud for your own good.

Senator Kruger calls such a phenomenon the ?iPod oblivion? and he defines this by saying, ?People are tuning in and tuning out. People are oblivious to the world around them.? He even adds that such is sure not safe for people and pedestrians. He furthermore says, ?We shouldn?t be seeing people walking on the street out of tune with the world around them.?

The Senator also gave an example to back up the legislation that he introduced. You see, he learnt about a young man, only 23 years old who got struck by a vehicle and was killed. This happened on the 11th of January he was struck while he had his iPod glued to his ears. This young man is only one of the statistics and he believes that there are more.

On the other hand, there are also individuals and groups who are against such legislation. They say that perhaps it is quite too much and one even quipped that perhaps one day, we would be finding ourselves faced with another legislation which would ban daydreaming while we are crossing the street.

This legislation from Senator Kruger has already gained much popularity and hype not only in his locality but in other parts of the world as well. For sure, whatever happens with this legislation, the whole world is going to tune in.