You can connect two music sources to the transmitter, as well as establish two separate listening zones.
As I went to sleep one night a couple of weeks ago in the Green Zone, listening to the gurgle of the duck pond fountain and the comforting roar of Black Hawk helicopters patrolling overhead, it occurred to me that it was the safest night I've spent in about 25 years.
Records require that you actually pay attention when you're listening, not just zone out and never really hear the music.
Recently I was on the treadmill (the fitness kind, not the one we're on every day), off in my own zone, listening to "Lemonade" through my ear buds, while leafing through the latest "New Yorker," when a woman I knew jumped onto the adjoining treadmill.
Listening gave danger-zone residents information they needed: stay inside, get down, don't open the door; if you're driving, take shelter, and don't stop for anyone.
Indeed by midweek perhaps the most prominent story line had become a celebration of the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, who moved many Chinese with his shows of sympathy for the victims throughout the crisis, spending long hours traveling in the quake zone and listening to the stories of some of those who had been hardest hit.
It's easy to spend the afternoon watching videos on YouTube or Netflix, or zone out listening to music from Spotify and Pandora.
If the Brooklyn sets evoke Broadway to the smallest detail — like the fake Playbills in the characters' dressing rooms — the verisimilitude reaches "Twilight Zone" levels when listening to theater people describe playing theater people.
One of my favorites is also taking a long bus ride listening to podcasts, I can zone into the episodes without being distracted by people, notifications etc.
Whether you are prone to Adele listening parties or like to zone out to the grizzly voice of Tom Waits, there's an emerging talent for you.
