An iPod's New Best Friend

Those of us in the Internet gadget rumormongering community know that when ThinkSecret posts the latest "scoop" coming out of Steveland in Cupertino, it's always gospel, like their piece from this summer that said "sources" at Apple didn't think there'd be a fifth generation video iPod "anytime soon." So this latest report is administered with an appropriate granule of sodium chloride, but in our no. 37 top link today, AI writes that Apple will debut some kind of " iPod boombox" at MacWorld in January, and that it could have a hard drive, wireless connectivity of some kind, and even satellite radio. The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a photograph of what they think such a project could look like, but their post describes AppleInsider as "wacky," which does not speak well of its credibility. The wackiness continues with these responses on the relevant Engadget post, where one guy writes that he hopes the iPod boombox "supports video," and the whole thing just turns into madness. A boombox with an iPod, satellite radio, and a video display? What is this, the 21st century?

Posted by Philip Ewing at December 14, 2005 11:52 AM

Category: The Gadget Scene