As convenient as they have become, music players are still intrusive. Headphones or earbuds have to be wireless to be really useful, and their batteries must last for months without recharging or at least without conscious effort by the user. The best kind of music player would be worn like a wristwatch and require no headphones at all, playing sound by somehow directly stimulating the air inside the ear canal or transmitting sound through bone. The sound would still be private, then, but not require intrusive and anti-social earphones. This technology, once developed, could easily be adapted for hearing aids. I'd name the remote sound reproduction device after the technology named in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey: the "statiophonic, oxygenetic, amplifya-graphaphona-delaverberator", just to be odd and difficult. Marketers would then be free to name it however they feel.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - I have never liked tangling with cords.
PPS - I can stand the inevitable batteries of wireless, as long as they last a while.
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