A study has found out that there is a direct correlation between iPods and crime. The report from the Urban Institute, a think tank in DC, suggests that recent crime waves in the area might have a lot to do with the proliferation of iPods. The writers of the study, John Roman and Aaron Chalfin, notes that iPods are not only pricey they are also status symbols making them very tempting for criminals. Several familiar iPod features like the white ear buds makes them easy to spot and the preoccupied users prove to be easy victims. There has been no causal relatioship established in the study between the ubiquity of iPods and crime rates but the correlation is there.

[via arstechnica]