Apple today announced that the price of the iPod shuffle is now priced at $49, apple is also introduces the 2GB iPod shuffle that now comes in five different colors silver, blue, green, purple and red. The new iPod will be priced at $69.

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Man arrested at gunpoint after police mistake his MP3 player for a gun
With mp3 players coming in so many different shapes now i wasn’t surprized when i heard that Darren Nixon, 28, was arrested and put in police cell for simply listening to music on his way home from work. According to the police they were acting on a tip from the public. They follow Darren via CCTV (closed-circuit television) as he boarded a local bus. He was then detained, authorities took DNA and fingerprint samples from Nixon, and about an hour later, released him with a quick apology for the inconvenience.

[Daily Mail UK]

Motorola has released the Mobile TV TV DH01n, this is a pocket sized gadget that comes with GPS Navigation capabilities (2D or 3D and Tele Atlas map views) and a personal Media Player. Watch live TV, on-demand video, personal media content and find your way at the same time.

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The Toshiba Gigabeat T802 isn’t just another media player but also a 1Seg reception portable TV. The gigabeat T802 comes with a 8GB internal memory, the media player supports WMA, MP3, WAV, WMV, JPEG media formats. It runs the Windows Mobile software for Portable Media Center.

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Apple is now doubling the capacity of both the iPhone and iPod Touch for new customers and all this will cost you is just an extra $100 more. So now you get double the storage for music, pictures, movies and podcasts. Pricing on the existing iPod and iPhone models stays the same. It was announced yesterday that the 32GB iPod Touch sells for $499.

[pcworld]

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher has reported that portable media players such as iPods, Sony Walkman and Zune are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers. Testing of variety of iPods showed that they do not produce enough electromagnetic field to interfere with the devices. They measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and an iPod nano and an iPod shuffle.

[Fareastgizmos]

iPod, Alarm Clock, USB and CD Player
Teac announces the the SR-L250i all in one. This All in One consist of a CD Player, AM Radio, iPod / iPhone Dock and Alarm Clock. The SR-L250i can also play mp3 files that you have stored on your USB key.

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Check out these gigantic white earbuds, they are way pass the original size of a iPod earbud, to be precise they are 500 times bigger. I would have to say they are sub woofers disguised in an earbud’s casing. The 500XL features a built-in amp and a 3 way power, that can be run by batteries, wall or USB Port. I will be looking out for the 500XL its a must have in my book.

[500 XL] [Fosfor]