VoIP: The Dork Side

So I was in Boston at the On Demand Expo yesterday and I was wandering down the hallway past the meeting rooms, where folks were glued to cellphones (oh, how pleasant life was before them!). One person was apparently using VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) and lacked the proper accoutrements, as he was holding his laptop computer up to his head, listening with a very short pair of iPod headphones and talking into the PC's built-in mike. It looked massively dorky. I wonder if the computer's microphone was sensitive enough to have picked up my laughter as I walked by.