“It’s an iPod world and we only live in it. Here is just a partial catalog of idiotic i-accessories you can purchase for the hottest consumer product in memory: iBling, a bejeweled case for the iPod Shuffle; iSkin, a different brand of podcases; iGuy, a Gumby-like plastic toy that holds an iPod Nano; the iShade screen protector; all kinds of iStation speaker systems; and likewise a variety of iHomes docking stations, including a travel alarm clock and a kitchen under-cabinet system suitable for mating with your iPod,” Alex Beam reports for The Boston Globe.
Beam reports, “i’M not finished! iJet makes a remote controller for the ubiquitous music player. Earlier this week, four airlines announced they’re installing iPod-compatible iSeat connections in real jets. iKlear makes a pod cleaning kit, and it’s increasingly common to see cars outfitted with iTrip systems that sync up your iPod with your car radio. The iCarPlay wireless device accomplishes pretty much the same thing. Can the long-rumored iPhone be far behind?”
Beam reports, “For the sacrilegious, there is the iBelieve snap-on case that transforms the iPod Shuffle into the shape of a cross. For the sexually adventurous, there is a device for sale in Great Britain called the iBuzz, about which I can say only that it doesn’t cut hair. Nike now makes the iSneaker (real name: Nike Plus), a $300 running pod-shoe system with an electronic voice that interrupts your music pleasure to tell you how your outing is going, e.g.: ‘Good grief, Alex. Could you possibly run any slower?'”
Full article here.
Related articles:
Report: Microsoft, SanDisk overstate accessory support – September 15, 2006
Six best iPod accessories – August 10, 2006
iPod accessory makers come up with some very odd products – July 19, 2006
And don’t forget the ‘ohmibod’ device at their website.
MW= somewhat, as that device is somewhat intriguing!!
I can see where some would consider a few of the accessories ridiculous; calling speaker systems and cases “idiotic”?
whoops.
That should’ve read “…BUT calling speaker systems and cases “idiotic”?
Big mistake. Really big mistake. Not putting an “i” in front of the Zune. Because we all zune and that is the perfect device to take to the zune-can for a test flush.
I’ve been really depressed ever since I broke my iBrator.
-c
MW: ‘girls’ (just wanna have fun)
Thanks. iRead the article and iThought it was too funny.
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Peace.
Some list…he left off the most obvious one of all, the iCarta.
“… the hottest consumer product in memory”?
Let me just say that you better make room in your ‘hottest consumer product’ memory banks for Microsoft’s spectacular Zune. I would be very careful to make such a declaration until I see sales figures for Redmond’s latest wonder. The hits just keep coming from Microsoft and I can’t imagine Apple ever catching up to this one. 30GB of bliss.
If anyone is excited it is the Zune accessories manufacturers. In the next few weeks there will be Zune this and Zune that at a quality level and usability standpoint you iPod lemmings will be drooling over. You want to make your first million in a hurry? You better start making accessories for Zune. This market is going to explode.
Your potential. Our passion.
I’m not sure what he’s talking about with the $300 Nike Plus system. I have the shoes that cost $100 and the Nike Plus transmitter which cost $29. I guess if you factor in the cost of a Nano then that would be $300, but that’s misleading to say that this accessory cost $300.
Just ignore ZuneTang. Don’t respond.
Apparently, George Bush even asked Steve Jobs if he had time to run a country in the middle East which would subsequentlly be renamed iRaq.
Zune Tang, WTF?
The only useful accessory for the Zune is toilet paper.
Notice he borrowed the name “Zune Tang,” which was created on this site weeks ago by a Mac user. The PC users of the world can’t seem to create anything on their own.
Think he’ll try to run iRan, too?
iDoubt it.
Do you think Zune Tang has been snorting something nasty?
Like toilet cleaner!!!
Zune Tangle
You are right. Depends just came out with their Zune edition, for people who accidentally get “Zuned Out”.
And I didn’t notice any that said “iPood” So, you might be on to something…
Hey Always Right: ignoring the Zune and its well received features will not make it go away. Microsoft’s marvelous Zune is like a locomotive–once it gets started (and it has, BIGTIME) it will be hard to stop. Just look at the vibrant energy and clear message in the Zune advertisements. Here’s a hint: this is a fresh, new hip product & you can squirt with this thing; look how happy everyone is to be freed from Apple’s dark dominance of the MP3 player market!
It’s time for an MP3 player that can hold 30GB of music, pictures and video, it’s time for a color screen on an MP3 player, and finally, it’s time for integrated software and an online store which solves the problem getting data into an MP3 player effortlessly. Microsoft has answered the call and Apple is once again left to follow the leader. I don’t know why they even try.
Do your iPod commercials have the same intelligent, youthful vigor Zune commercials do? No. Oh look at me, I can clip a shuffle on a shirt. Whoop-de-dooooo! Okay Apple, I get it. You can make clips. Got a stack of IT work orders on my desk for you. Now how about offering something people really want, and try not to copy the Zune in your typically “me-too” feeble attempt.
Welcome to the Social.
Zune Tang – are you boring?
People, people have you all lost the ability to apreciate irony. If you need help, think of irony as subtle sarcasm and Zune Tang’s posts are almost comic genious. The Tangmeister is funny.
BTW Zune Tanger if you’re not being ironic sorry for misinterpreting you but I still think you’re funny.
What we really need a “cleaning kit” for is Apple’s two button (and one nipple) mouse. I love the mouse, when it works.
Always Right…
Zune Tang’s irony and sarcasm are too much for you to get, huh? Poor wretch.
Zune Tang, I’m afraid irony is lost on many readers of this site.
I liked the “intelligent, youthful vigor Zune commercials” bit. Nice one!
SquirtsForSure will be the new internet. No doubt about it.
Don’t satire? Just trade ‘Microsoft’ and ‘Apple’ in all of Zune Tang’s posts, as well as ‘Zune’ and ‘iPod’, etc, and maybe you’ll ‘get it’.
Also – try watching Colbert.
(pronounced coal-BEAR, btw)
And watch out for bears.
-c
MW: ‘addition’ (or subtraction – how will Zune affect MS profits?)
D’oh! Should be “Don’t GET satire..”
My fiance loves her iPod. After I give her iBuzz for Xmas she’ll love it even more.
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