Posts Tagged ‘ iPod killer ’

Zune Originals

Nov 12th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

Cool Hunting has the scoop on Zune Originals, a collection of 27 original artworks by 18 international artists, designed to be engraved onto the back of the device.
On the Zune Originals site, launching tomorrow (13 November 2007), visitors will be able to customize their Zune by size, color, illustration and with up to four optional [...]



Newsweek Confuses Lame Zune Wireless Features With Female Ejaculation

Nov 26th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Strange, iPods & Portable Media Players

Newsweek tech writer Steven Levy had us feeling a bit not-so-fresh with his discussion of the erotic charge of iPods in his book The Perfect Thing.
Now Levy appears to have confused the widely criticized wireless features of Microsoft’s Zune portable media player with squirting, a colloquial term for female ejaculation.
“Have you squirted a song yet?” [...]



New MP3 Player Ad Campaign Mocks iPod Owners as iPuppets

May 24th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

A new ad campaign for the Sansa e200, a portable digital media player, mocks iPod owners, calling them iSheep and iPuppets.

The iDont campaign calls on “free thinkers, contrarians and malcontents” to “rise up against the iTatorship.



iriver clix: iPod Killer or Wannabee?

May 18th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players

iriver has introduced the clix portable media player, a new media player that integrates with the just-released version of Windows Media Player 11 and the public beta of MTV Networks’ URGE digital music service.
At $199, the iriver clix offers a competitive feature set, including a 2GB memory capacity, a color display, digital FM tuner, enhanced [...]