Yamaha has announced a new MP3 player, the BodiBeat, that promises to DJ your workout, selecting tunes based on your heart rate.¬† According to Yamaha, it’s “the world’s first music player/heart rate monitor that selects and plays songs to match the pace of the user’s workout.”
The player goes beyond Apple’s Nike + iPod combination, a [...]

Mszunefan, aka the King of Zunes, has gone for a second Zune tattoo.
His first Zune tattoo featured the logo for Microsoft’s portable media player.¬† We still haven’t seen any iPod tattoos, yet……
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English artist David Hockney knows what’s to blame for the decline of western civilization.
It’s not homosexuality.
It’s not expressionistic art.
It’s iPods!
Speaking on the eve of his 70th birthday, Britain’s best-loved living painter said the proliferation of iPods and other digital music players has combined with a decline in art education to create a “fallow period of [...]

Melodeo today announced nuTsie, a new mobile music service that lets you get your entire iTunes library on your mobile phone.
nuTsie lets users access their iTunes music on a wide variety of popular phones. nuTsie is built on Melodeo’s mobile streaming technology, which means users don’t have to sync their phone to a computer, [...]

The mpion is one of the most bizarre variations on the MP3 player that we’ve seen.
The Japanese gadget promises to give you an ionic facial while you listen to music. It also promises humiliation, though, as you realize you spent ¥20,790 (about $170) for an MP3 player that only has 128MB of memory.
The mpion has [...]

Details are leaking out about a new round of Microsoft Zune portable media players and updates to the Zune’s operating system. The changes look to be incremental, rather than revolutionary, and don’t look like they will be enough to turn the Zune into more than another iPod wannabe.
According to an iLounge report, Microsoft reviewed new Zune [...]

iLounge is reporting that Microsoft will be releasing a new Zune on Monday:
We’re hearing that Microsoft’s holding an event in Redmond on Monday to preview/announce a new Zune - most likely the flash-based one the company’s been hinting at for a while. No other details yet; if there’s something worth telling you about on Monday, [...]

According to a new report by broadcasting research firm Arbritron, iPods and portable media players are one of the fastest-growing audio platforms, but the audience for traditional radio remains strong.
While Arbitron’s analysis paints a fairly rosy picture of the state of radio, their stats confirm several industry trends that may cause concern for traditional radio [...]

Zune Scene has reports on “leaked” details of upcoming Zune media players:
Zune 2.0 and a smaller flash based Zune will be sold this year. He would not tell me the marketing names but referred to them as the big one and little one. The hard drive version looks like the generation 1 Zune, but is [...]

Slacker has announced a new Personal Radio service that lets U.S. consumers create customized stations and listen to them on the computer or with a Slacker portable media player.
The service lets is an Internet radio service that lets you create personalized radio stations. They plan to offer wireless Slacker portable media players that will effectively [...]