The next time you’re playing Nintendo Wii or XBox, think twice before offing anybody or anything.  According to an  article I read yesterday, a Japanese woman was jailed on charges of hacking to commit the virtual murder of her online husband’s persona after he unexpectedly divorced her.  Whew!  Time to step back into reality.  All of these acts supposedly took place within a game called “Maple Story”.

More in video game news… keep faithful old Fido away from your Nintendo Wii, and your iPod for that matter.  According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, a recent study by PetPlan (a pet insurance company) named the top ten electronic gadgets for injuring pets.  iPod and Nintendo Wii topped the list, followed by Sony Playstation, and Nintendo DS.  Injuries named in the study included everything from falls to electrical incidents…eeewww.  One other thing that ranked high on the pet injury list- karaoke machines??  I don’t even want to know the details on that one.

Here’s an innovative idea for your iPod Nano- Bluetooth headphones. IMuffs let you put your iPod in your backpack or your pocket and listen to your tunes without wires in the way. The iPod headphones are compatible with any iPod that has a dock hookup on the bottom, and they’ll function up to 30 feet away from your iPod using Bluetooth technology.

There are controls on the ear pieces, so you can change songs or the volume without digging out your MP3 player. IMuffs are available at Balkowitsch Enterprises for $175, and they’ll also work with any Bluetooth cell phone.

If you’d rather have iPod earbuds instead of headphones, have a look at these EarPollution earbuds made by ifrogz. The colors are great, the radioactive symbol is very unique, and they include a travel case. Depending on what you use them for, you should check out both the short cord and long cord versions. I found ifrogz EarPollution earbuds at DayDeal for $18.99.

Boy, things have sure changed since my clock radio, which featured a wood-grained exterior and my choice of the radio, a cassette tape of my choosing, or bodily-organ-dissolving-alarm-sound-from-hell (which I sometimes set accidentally).

Behold, the iHome iPod Clock Radio. Now you can spend all night (and be late to work the next morning too) figuring out which one of 10,000 songs to choose as your alarm.