http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051104/ap_on_hi_te/portable_porn
It’s got to just be the novelty of it right now, right? Or is it legal to masturbate on the bus now? (Maybe they’ll let me back on…)
On one hand (ha ha ha) I’d say no way this flies. What’s the point of porn if you can’t rub out some knuckle children?
On the other hand - some guys do seem to like looking at porn in public. Witness the dudes who put pinup girls in their work areas; I never really understood the point of that. Why have a Sun Girl up near the heat treat schedule? You can’t flog your dog in the middle of the shop floor. But guys do it, so there must be some appeal.
Alone in your office, sneaking in to the bathroom, waiting in that boring doctor’s office waiting room…oh wait, eww!
Not everyone is as comfortable whipping it out at home around their spouse, etc. as Dopers are. They can probably count on their iPod not being messed with by nosy people and can find a place to go at it uninterrupted.
Also, I can see people showing choice clips to their buddies at bars, parties, etc. I can just picture “Hey guys, look at this…”
I think you are forgetting about the office bathroom, the plane bathroom, Aunt Sally’s spare bedroom at Thanksgiving, that rarely used conference room etc. There are pockets of privacy to be found just about everywhere. As long as you are carrying it for music, there is nothing wrong with having added features. Personally, there aren’t 60GB worth or porn ever made that I would find worth watching but some have other needs and tastes.
We appreciate your tolerance. 
Of course there’s a market for it. Because porn is not some harmless entertainment but a devastating addiction that will destroy your life, rot your mind, ruin your marriage and burn your dog. Obviously the market is the millions of helpless addicts who can’t go more than a few minutes without a porn “fix”.
See this gem and lean the Truth http://www.lifetimetv.com/movies/originals/cyberseduction.php .
Porn to go is NOT a big deal!! You could store and watch porn on cellphones and PDAs 3 years ago! Why is this even newsworthy?!
Moreover, porn on PDA’s and cell phones is already a big business. I work for a large cell phone company which has phones with robust data services. One time we were doing profiling of the traffic which comes through the network, i.e. what our customers are surfing for on their cell phones and when in aggregate(not specific) terms. Our busiest hours were late night and most of the traffic was porn. Somewhere there are many, MANY, people looking at dirty pictures on their cell phones late at night(11 - 12 PM being the busiest single hour).
It was quite a revelation for me. Here I was thinking people were using their phones to look up movie listings, stock quotes, weather, etc. and in reality they’re just happy to have a browser they can operate easily with one hand.
Enjoy,
Steven
That looks interesting and takes on a topic that is both timely and topical. But more importantly, does the chick in the purple sweater take off her top and show us her tits?
Bah, 3 years is nothing. People had porn on their graphing calculators 9 years ago when I was a freshman in high school.
I read an article recently, I think on Cnet, about how the “main” porn industry wasn’t rushing to the new video iPod technology. The reasoning was that the industry is already under pressure from parent’s groups about providing porn that’s accessible to children, and the video iPod just screams, “porn for kiddies.”
Take that for what it’s worth. I’m sure there’s no shortage of DIY pornsters who’re going to make big bucks off it.
Hell, I had boobies on my cheapo calculator 25 years ago.
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Bah to you! Twenty-five years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, you could get porn on your basic Texas Instrument pocket calculator. Just type in 80085 on your calculator and you could see BOOBS.
Tee-hee! Boobs!
There’s actually a lot of words you can type on the basic calculator, viewed upside down.
0 = O, 1 = I, 3 = E, 4 = H, 5 = S, 6 = G, 7 = L, 8 = S
Boobs on the calculator was by far the biggest thrill when we chanced upon it the first time…
You mean the stuff available for the new iProd?
You win.
I guess you could combine it with this http://www.thetoy.co.uk/ (well I could anyway).