Lasonic has introduced its I931 High Performance Portable Music System - aka, The iPod Boombox. 
It’s a lot like the boomboxes from back in the days - except that it’s Made For iPod, it’s got USB support, it reads from SD/MMC cards, it’s got a remote and it can send video out to a TV. 
The iPod [...]

Aristarkh Chernyshev & Alexei Shulgin’s wowPod is an interactive multimedia sculpture based on the iPod. 
It features a giant, distorted version of the iconic Apple iPod, which is actually functional.

Fring (App Store link) is a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch that supports free voice over IP (VoIP) telephony. 
Fring lets you use voice and text communications with a variety of services, including fring, Skype, MSN, Twitter, Google Talk and AIM. On the iPhone and touch, service is available using your WiFi connection. 
fring [...]

Last year, we called the Kindle “this year’s Zunetanic, an over-hyped iPod-wannabee.”
A little harsh, maybe, but the prediction is panning out to be true. 
Since then, Amazon has dropped the price for the Kindle, announced a lot more books for the device and sold in modest numbers, leading Amazon to admit that the device was not the [...]

Barack Obama has introduced a new tool for catering to his wired backers - the Obama ‘08 iPhone app (app store link).
Features:

Call Friends: A great volunteering tool that lets you make a difference any time you want by talking to people you already know. Your contacts are prioritized by key battleground states, and you can make [...]

Fortune reports that Apple is threatening to kill the iTunes Store over music royalties. 
The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. is expected to rule Thursday on a request by the National Music Publishers’ Association to raise royalty rates on songs purchased from online music stores, like iTunes, from 9 cents to 15 cents per track. 
“If [...]

A tale of love, expressed in iPod words.
Produced and directed by Paolo Tosolini and Silvia Tosolini, Creative Commons license.

Apple has announced iPhone Developer University - a new program designed to help educational institutions create curriculum for developing iPhone applications. 
The iPhone Developer University Program is a free program designed for higher education institutions looking to introduce curriculum for developing iPhone or iPod touch applications.
The University Program provides development resources, tools for testing and debugging, [...]

 Alex Sokirynsky, developer of Podcaster, a podcast client for the iPhone, is making the switch to Google’s Android smartphone platform. 
Apple banned Podcaster from being sold in the App Store because “it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.”
“It seems that Apple has shut me down,” says Sokirynsky. ”All I wanted was for someone from Apple [...]

At GigaOm, John Sangiovanni offers his take on the emergence of a new category of phone, the superphone:
The product that created and continues to define the superphone category is the iPhone. The iPhone offers an elegant user interface powered by an impressive array of integrated hardware, all wrapped up in a masterwork of industrial design. 
He [...]