Sun - August 31, 2003

MY GOD! What will they think of next?



A little piece of electronic paradise.

Okay, when MP3s came out I was impressed but never really saw any use (for me anyway). Then came the late Napster and they had my attention. However, I was on a crappy PC and didn't have any decent software. Then I got WinAmp and could at least play my music at my desk. Fine, but you can't really lounge around on Sunday morning in your $99 Staples office chair. Then came my Mac, and iTunes, and the much heralded and adored iPod. Now I could rip the tons of CDs I've been accumulating since my first purchase of the Batman Soundtrack by Prince and Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl in the late 80s - sad but true. With this music comfortably converted and categorized on my iPod, I could now leave the confines of my desk and venture out into the world. I could play my music in my car or through my home stereo or while snowboarding down Mammoth Mountain. Life was bliss again.

But then I outgrew my iPod. This 20GB piece of beautifully styled technology could only hold half of my library. In order play new music, something had to deleted. Annoyance set in and I turned to the internet for salvation. It was there in the expanse of cyberspace that I found, at least partial, deliverance. Enter the Slimp3 . This little unassuming box of LEDs allows me to play ALL of my music through my stereo upstairs while the actual MP3s reside safely downstairs on my Mac in the office. I hooked it up using a wireless bridge and it connects to my iTunes library through the magic of wireless. Brilliant! It even has a remote control. I can lay in bed a play the 45GB of music I have archived down there. I would starve to death long before I played every one of the 9743 songs.

To fellow music and techno-philes (especially Ian Williams and Greg Lawler ) consider the gauntlet thrown down. Step up to the plate, boys.

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