XM * iPod
Now available,
XM MyFi, the first portable XM radio receiver, which is potentially a much cooler, more useful thing the iPod. Has time-shifting too, so you can Tivo your shows. Much cooler, for sure, than the ugly black-and-red
U2 iPod, which demands $150 for the entire U2 "box" set. I wonder if anyone will officially marry XM with the iPod, allowing you to record new content delivered from the heavens. Then, as the iPod gets better with its
video, movies. Someone somewhere must be working on a hack to fuse the two devices together. (Probably involves some dumb, analog "this earphone jack plugs into that mic port" trick.) Then this hybrid gadget would need some sort of output device to make room for new content. It's starting to sound like some sort of musical Tamagotchi that you have to feed and take to the bathroom periodically...
In the end,
iPod zombies will still walk the streets, but for some reason I feel more comfortable knowing or thinking that they're listening to new content, having at-the-moment reactions, remembering, maybe even thinking. I mean, it's one thing to watch time-shifted shows with Tivo, but it's another creepy, strange thing to watch the same movies over and over again on dvd. Not that you can't continually load new music onto your iPod, of course. I just find it a little more difficult than turning on the radio.
Now, when are we going to be able to buy handheld video projectors? Glue one of those things onto an xmovipod and you're one step closer to having a holodeck. Yeah.
* Ray, 10/28/2004 11:12:42 AM
