The iPod Shuffle might just represent the prefect marriage of design and technology. No suprise that it's made by Apple.
Ultra portable, yet possessing an amazing battery life, this little Fair Play compliant device can act as a thumb drive to store your files, play your MP3's for hours and hours, and recharge from any standard USB port. Functional and technical, perfection!.
Recently a colleague and I shared how our Shuffles' had become like an appendage when it came to our daily routines even more so than our full size iPods. You can imagine my shock when I awoke one day to find that my Shuffle had gone missing. Apple really should think of adding a GPS location device to it for those of us who are absent(lazy) minded. When it was located it just happened to be in the dryer. My shock of realizing that my daily workout routine would not include my favorite tunes was only shadowed by the realization that my poor Shuffle had been run through the spin cycle and then 70 minutes of high heat drying and probably dead. I plugged the Shuffle into the USB port of my Powerbook and went on to work out. I returned 30 or so minutes later and opened iTunes to find that the Shuffle was mounted, charged and reporting that it was ready to add new songs. ?? ??? ???? Could it be that the darn thing was going to work? I quickly found a new pair of earbuds. (as they didn't fair very well in the dryer) I undocked the Shuffle and fired it up, and to my amazement it worked!!.. Now I would not suggest that anyone test this, al la MythBusters but I would also not assume that your Shuffle is necessarily dead until you see the iPod reaper.
Small, Ultra Portable, Powerful, and now Waterproof, the Shuffle continues to amaze.
