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Friday, April 29, 2005

An Ease-of-Use Remover Is your iPod too simple? Someone at the Japanese company Nyco must have had some sleepless nights, or they've lost control of their engineers. Announcing the the iTop™ Button Relocator. Boy, with a sexie name like that how can they go wrong. I thought battery-powered wireless keyboards that sit three inches from the computer they could plug into were dumb, but this one is the logical equivalent of used sashimi. As you can see by the terrifying photo herein, this device snaps onto the top of your iPod converting its clean, functional interface into a confusing pile of buttons, all to save you the caloric expense of tipping the poor thing over to get at the built-in controls. The price is $29.95 - the same as Apple's remote control - which unlike this pile-o-pits actually makes some sense. Man, I am in the wrong business. But obviously, so is Nyco. LINK (Found via Engadget, but don't blame them) I'm currently listening to "Collapse" by Jarod Diamaond, and just realised how much this device looks like the 'hats' that Easter Islanders put on top of their huge statues in a seriously misguided attempt to make "their god" taller then the gods of neighboring tribes. It would be fun to stack all the shit you could plug into an iPod together and see what it looked like. 6:37:59 AM    comment []