Upskirts and Down with Hemlines!

Only in Japan - the new iPhone will make a sound when it takes pictures due to a local pastime:

The loud shutter sound is supposed to deter voyeurs from taking sneaky pictures up women’s’ skirts — or down their tops.

In Japan, upskirt and downblouse shots have become increasingly popular with the advent of high-resolution camera phones.

As a result, all cell phones sold in Japan make a conspicuous shutter sound, or say the word “cheese” when a snap is taken,

There is a comment to make about cheese and wire here, but far be it for us......

Of course, if the economy carries on moving in the direction it is going, this will soon stop being a problem - it has long been observed that women's hemlines go up in good times, and down in bad. Quite why this should be so has never been explained well enough in my view, but there you are.

(Incidentally, for the mathematicians, chartist stock pickers and other quirkologists among you, hemlines apparently are predicted by Elliot Waves, which is in theory a model of the dynamics of human psychology in markets, which is in itself.....well anyway, next time an aspiring Japanese shutterbug gets caught in a compromising situation, one way out may be to explain that he was actually indulging in data collection for Elliot Wave theory rather than being a pesky voyeurbug)