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Image speaks for itself! As a token of appreciation David Beckham was recently gifted a 32GB Golden iPod for donning the English cap in his 100th appearance. He completed his feat in last week’s friendly match against France. [Via Gizmologia]

  Apple’s smallest iPod in the family, the Shuffle got a price drop today. The 1GB iPod Shuffle will now cost you $49 whereas the 2GB one is priced at $69. Apple store is currently selling the 1GB variant but the 2GB model will be up for sale later during this month. Product Page

  You all must be knowing that a special Apple event is underway and Steve Jobs has unveiled new lines of iPods. First is the fatty iPod Nano. The new Nano will come in 4GB or 8GB version with 2-inch QVGA screen and can now play videos. Other features include improved UI with Cover Flow, [...]

  What was just a parody by one company; another one converted it to reality with some modifications. A Korean company has unveiled a bikini with playback buttons which can control the music of your iPod. This piece of wearable technology will be available in Korea for gals who are lazy to reach their iPods [...]

  According to a study presented by a 17-year-old teenager, Jay Thaker, world’s best selling music player can be hazardous to people using pacemakers. The test was carried out on 100 people (mean age was 77) equipped with pacemakers and found out that iPods caused the electromagnetic equipment in pacemakers to malfunction. The interference was [...]

  Some of the iPod accessories available are rather useless but these shirts sold by iSkins seem to be useful. The iShirt sports an elastic pocket at the side which can hold the player. Now there is nothing great in this but hey, who gave it a thought till now? The shirt also has a [...]

  This interesting iPod tale comes from Berkshire, UK. Apparently, The Fat Duck, a restaurant will now be serving iPods with their food. Why? Heston Blumenthal, the owner of the restaurant reckons that listening to music while eating enhances the eating experience. Thus, a new dish called “Sound of the Sea” will be served with [...]

  We know Apple’s remarkable achievement of selling more than 1 billion iPods and also its widespread reach. To prove its popularity, here is an image of a tribal woman holding the chic music player. The woman comes from Mursi tribe which resides in Ethiopia. [Via Cult of Mac]

  Child: Dad, what am I wearing? Dad: Its an iPod Shirt to show that I love you and my iPod. Child: What does it do? Dad: It plays music and you can listen to poems too. Child: What does this circle on the shirt do? Dad: Its called clickwheel. You can skip tracks, adjust [...]

  We know Apple has big plans. And one of the steps to make it bigger is to launch iPods which will feature Wi-Fi connectivity. DigiTimes speculates about the new iPods to be launched in the second half of this year. According to their source, Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will manufacture the Wi-Fi modules while [...]

  This is the image you may find when you point your web browser to the Apple site. Apple’s music machine (also a cash cow for them), iPod reached the magical sales figure of 100 million units and is still counting. iPod’s journey began in November 2001 and till date, it is the undisputed king [...]

  Ok. This is useless in my opinion but nonetheless if you want to evade your beloved Nano from the robber’s eyes iDisguise can help you. It is a case with Wintergreen and Peppermint Candy cover on it and also protecting your Nano from inside. God help you if the thief loves peppermint. Available here [...]

  Add this one to iPod Nano’s long list of accessories. After having a Nike+iPod Sport Kit for iPod Nano, Nike is offering a skullcap with a powerful mesh window at the rear which helps the user to control its Nano’s clickwheel. It will be available soon in four different colors for a price tag [...]

  Apple has just announced the availability of its iPod Shuffle music player in five different colors. As pictured above, the small trendy clip player will be available in colors of green, pink, orange, blue and silver. The Shuffle has a storage capacity of 1GB and costs $79. Product Page [Via AppleInsider]

  Though Rockbox is not new (it exists from 2001), many of them still do not know what it is. Basically, it is an open source firmware which can replace your existing music player’s firmware to unlock a whole lot of new features like playing Doom, gapless playback etc. Many players from Archos, iRiver, Apple, [...]