number 9

Like me, I’m sure your dearest wish is that karaoke catalogues included everything in the ‘new wave’ shelf of Toggsys’ record shop in Haverfordwest Riverside Market.

Brothers and sisters, the Rapture is at hand.
Behold The iKaraoke!

Strips the vocals off any of your ipods music, mixes in your best rendition of ‘mr pharmacist’ and squirts it out through through your stereo.

That alone is worth selling your soul to the DRM devil, but it gets better. It’s got an integrated FM transmitter, which I expect is the usual iTrip affair.

These can be tampered with , by which I mean ‘modded to drown out all other stations within a 70 foot radius’.

I predict this years surprise Christmas #1 will be ‘hey, guy at number 35, shut that fucking dog up’ by The Stooges.

Apple have been busy.

Rumours of a worthy successor to the ipod mini turned out to be true(with an external finish bordering on practical).

Very, very glad I resisted the temptation to try to make a buck on the refurbed nanos that apple were pimping (although the DAB radios did very nicely, thanks for asking. If anyone needs any old 2000ADs, be sure to let me know.)

And it looks like mini/nano itx is toast , unless you have a thing for serial ports. Don’t these have VT-X extensions? If that’s true (and they don’t burn too many houses down) I’ll have to get one.

Coverflow has been assimilated (heard they were taking about going shareware on us, so that’s not a moment too soon).

They seem to have hidden the new shuffles away. Which is a good idea if you want to sell the minis nanos, probably.

Oh and the big ipods have keyboards and videos or something <shrug/>.

Good news all round. Unless you work in iPod city, naturally.