Nico

Actually, no, it’s not a giant key. It’s the brand new 3rd generation iPod Shuffle (I meant the one on the left. The one on the right is a giant key…), and I never understood why they call this the Shuffle, and the larger one, the Nano. I mean, look at the thing - it’s puny! Which means you won’t know it’s there, which means you’ll leave it in the pants you threw into the washing machine, or in that gap between the seats in the bus. Just imagine going to the lost and found at the bus interchange…

Idiot: “Hey, have you seen my MP3 player?”

Customer Service Officer: “What does it look like?”

Idiot: “It has no buttons…”

CSO: “Oh, it was here somewhere. I must have lost it…”

And yup, it doesn’t even have buttons anymore. It just has a switch on top to select between off, shuffle, and play in order. The rest of the controls are on a small bar along the earbud wire, which allows the player itself to be just about as tiny as my ability to chat girls up.

Which is why I still love my iPod Classic…