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Emma Stratton is a writer and graphic designer who never leaves the house without her Tron-inspired headphones. She lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and can be contacted here.
Portable audio used to be strictly for joggers and the kids who smoked under the bleachers, but these days everybody and their guidance counselor has an iPod. So how did headphones become fashionable, and MiniDisc devotees get left by the wayside?