iPod Envy
The feeling one experiences when one sees others canoodling and chuckling amiably amongst themselves, or sharing anything warm and intimate, while the person feeling this horrible feeling is trapped, alone and lonely, in the desolate atmosphere spun around them from the little block of hardware in their hand.
Miguel saw the young people laughing and teasing one another on the E train, and felt the suffocating rush of iPod envy. He turned up the volume on his Nano, but it only served to deepen his despair.
iPod Envy by gateskeeper January 24, 2008
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