Wife stood in the Barnes and Noble music section wearing the headphones and listening to nothing. A few yards away Son Three (four years old) was also wearing headphones but grooving to cds with brightly colored covers. After a minute or two of fidgeting with the kiosk, she asked Son Three how to make the music play. He waved a cd under the upc scanner and continued to rock out. Wife told him he was silly. She asked him again and he showed her again, she dismissed his naivety. Frustrated she called over a clerk. The clerk took the cd and did exactly what Son Three had demonstrated. The music played but she was too confused to enjoy it.

When she got home she asked me how the device sucks the music off the cd through the packaging.

Oh, there’s more. Fascinated with the kiosk, middle son swiped a book under the upc scanner and waited for the book to be read to him in the headphones.