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You're probably familiar with it. You're waiting on the platform, the train arrives, you step towards the door of the carriage and suddenly your AirPods on the tracks under a multi-ton colossus. That you will never nestHello? Then you probably don't live in Japan. There are AirPods lost in the bowels of the railway are such a problem that they have invented a special device to rescue them. Meet what is probably the most bizarre vacuum cleaner from Panasonic.

Wireless headphones lost on the tracks are a major problem for train services in the Land of the Rising Sun. Railway companies must listen to suggestions from passengers who have lost their AirPods, for example, slipping out of your hand while getting out of bed, are becoming more and more common - after all, almost 1000 such cases were reported across the country between July and September this year alone. However, since rescuing small items from hard-to-reach and often graveled areas of the tracks is very difficult, the East Japanese railway company JR East decided to join forces with electronics manufacturer Panasonic and come up with a special device that will allow railway administrators to simply retrieve lost headphones from the tracks.

Pro A video was even created to present the new “vacuum cleaner”. In it, employeesancand railways explain that due to the increasing number of cases, their usual grippers are no longer nestand show how difficult it is to pull a small stone from a height of more than a meter from the surrounding stones. In addition, the video advises users of wireless headphones on how to properly insert their electronics into their ears.

However, it should be added that Japan is not the only country facing the problem on such a large scale. Same trouble already has also been solving the American problem for a long time New York. In addition, the administrators of the local metro complain that they often have to deal with the unruliness of some passengers who decide to go out on their own to retrieve the headphones, although such behavior is life-threatening. The New York subway currently solves these problems by collecting headphones after the end of operating hours, so as not to disrupt the flow of individual lines. However, if the new invention catches on in Japan, we can expect it to soon become part of the basic equipment of transport workers around the world. Either that, or we'll gradually become accustomed to a new breed of warning signs warning passengers to be careful with their wireless headphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5T2RwpRsc0&feature=emb_title

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