Guns dont kill people!!! i kill people.

death to apple, die and take ur dam DRM with you

big words from a person who knows little to non.

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I don't think this could be worth the money to invest in it...sure it may be pretty cool i suppose or something but if i had to buy one with or without for like say £30 more i would go less...

About the people dying: If people die for some reason whilst using something like a iPod then its a accident not the fault of the maker...trouble is there is no such thing as a accident in the law now :(

well if your able to say play (song) then you would be set. Also imagine a ipod built into the speakers, so its speakers that conect to each other, thats it. hdd is in the speakers where it plays.

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Well thats not gonna work. Magnets and hardrives don't get along so well.

oh right, well then solid state, by that time we should have 100GB flash drives!

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http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=33981

I just want to know if they will be lighning resistant. Read the link above about a boy mowing his lawn being struck by lightning. Another thing iPod can be blamed for.

You just have to carry it around in one of these:

Now i have listen to music while mowing the lawn once and it was pointless. I couldnt hear anything. Maybe he has a metal plate in his head? An who mows the lawn when there is a thunderstorm outside, i mean really.


They can sue Apple over this if they wanted to. Hows an iPod gonna attract the lightning more than anything else. The iPod isnt that charged it is?

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JUST INFO ITS NOT YE IPOOD

Rules

There are only 3 rules that electricity follows that one needs to know. Being aware of these rules helps understand lightning (as it is only electricity).

1. Electricity travels-
While this is not technically correct, it is in fact the traveling of electrons that is electricity and this is what causes lightning

2. Electricity travels between earth and another place-
In a lightning strike that is dangerous to humans, the earth is the ground and the other is the cloud.

3. Electricity likes to travel the easiest path between the earth and the other place-
This is why lightning commonly strikes the tallest object. Electricity finds it hard to travel though air (it has low conductivity). Trees, buildings, towers people and other objects conduct electricity much better than air.

Upon these three rules it is easy to create a plan that helps you avoid being struck.


Thunder is nature's warning

By Jack Williams, USATODAY.com

Each year lightning kills 50 to 100 people in the USA, mostly during the spring-summer thunderstorm season.

Anyone who goes outdoors needs to be aware of lightning's danger when thunderstorms are around.

A typical 100-million volt lightning flash can heat the air to more than 40,000°F, which causes it to expand and then contract as it cools. This creates sound waves: thunder. Even if you don't see the lightning, thunder means it's there, perhaps hidden by thick clouds.

For anyone outdoors "thunder is a wake-up call," says Ron Holle, a lightning scientist.

In fact, if you can hear the thunder, the lightning is probably within 10 miles. Thunder rarely travels farther, he notes.

A good lighting safety rule is:

* If you hear it, fear it.
* If you see it, flee it.

This means that if you hear thunder, the lightning is close enough to worry about. While it might be 10 miles away now, it could very quickly come much closer.

If you see a flash of lightning, no matter how far away, it's time to take shelter.

The best shelter from lightning is a permanent building. Sheds or small buildings aren't as safe. Vehicles with metal roofs are also safe, but be sure not to touch any metal surfaces.

It's best to stay away from windows when lightning is close. And lightning has killed people talking on the telephone, taking a bath or near electrical appliances. In rare cases, lightning that hits near a building can follow telephone wires, plumbing or electrical wires inside.

To estimate how far away the lightning is, use the "flash-to-bang" method. If you see a lightning flash, begin counting: "one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand," (or however you estimate seconds) until thunder is heard. Since the speed of light is about 186,300 miles per second, lightning is seen the instant it flashes. But sound travels about one mile in five seconds. If you hear the thunder 10 seconds after seeing the lightning, the lightning is about two miles away.

Holle recommends that when the flash-to-bang time is 10 to 15 seconds -- meaning the lightning is two to three miles away -- head for safe shelter, if you're not already there.

If the lighting is closer than three miles, the danger could be very high. A 1988 Florida study found that successive lightning strikes in a storm were two to three miles apart on average. If lightning is three miles away and the storm is moving toward you, the next strike could hit you. The flash-to-bang time can tell you if the storm is approaching. If the time between the flashes and the bangs grows shorter, the storm is getting closer.

Holle says the best defense against lightning is finding out if thunderstorms are forecast before heading outdoors.

If thunderstorms are in the picture, keep an eye out for clouds building into thunderstorms and head for shelter at the first crack of thunder or lightning flash.



Resources: Lightning science and safety
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/basics/wlightning.htm

lol thats a lot of good info for people wanting to learn that you shouldnt use electrical equipment in a thunderstorm outside.

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yea thats great for people that want to learn about getting hit by lightning lol...but back to the lame talking ipod haha...i think this is a big step but will it be that more attractive to the customer?? they say there are leaks of the new ipod out(this was like a month ago,so maybe they have already showed it i dunno) but they say its going to be touch screen the entire ipod..that is just asking for scratches...but the talking thing would scare the crap out of me personally..

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lol, imagine this, 'Select Your Song' sitting on a bus
'Volume at 60%'
'Thank you and goodbye'

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@iPirate, your post was to me, very innovative.
Just headphones as a mp3 player?
The telepathic abilities of a mp3 player would obviously surpass any other competition. Not only would it be expensive but hard to manufacture. But this is all in time. If that can happen, we will have 1TB USB's. Obviously 250,000 songs will take a very very long time to shuffle through and no one can listen to that many songs so here is what would probably happen in time. In the future, from my pov, there will be some revolutionally ultimate audio format, which will eventually keep on improving. Songs will take up more space than ever (more than ~4MB) to about I don't know, this is an unaccurate exagguration - 100MB so you could fit 10,000 songs. The audio quality will be like being there (ie. a concert) and this is my pov on audio in the future...

back on topic..

I think that the idea would be good... Except I don't think you would want people speaking though.. Imagine in a train where everyone has mp3 players and everyone is saying like "Play Evie" while someone else is saying "Play Slipknot" and you stare at them. There would need to be some sort of voice recognition in my opinion, but, smart idea.

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lilazn7 i beleive the talking ipod does the talking, not the listening. voice control would suck bigtime. imagine if the tags on the mp3s were not correct.

well thats why you correct them, and in the future, and right now, there is auto tag correction.

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But yeah... It would be cool to have it

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My phone, as most of ours do, take voice commands. The first time I had to repeat something more than once. That was the end of voice commands.

May car Nav system has a really sexy woman voice. Even that after a while got old so I put a muzzle on her.

For me personally, I would never use it. There's something about the tactile feel and scrolling and looking that can't be substituted.

Besides, all you have to do is buy a remote unit for you iPod to use in the car. I got mine for $24 and it works great.

I also, religiously use an earpiece when talking on the phone in the car. My hands are free, the reception is great. I'm amazed by how many people still put the phone up to their ear. With bluetooth and wired ear pieces, there's no excuse for it. Period.

All I can say is I hope you can turn the voice off.

yeah

it'll be the future, no more hand commands. all voice. trust me.

lol when you sitting on the can, you would say wipe clean.

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Well the technology is nothing new really it is already out there with word processing programs.But i really like the idea still.

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LOL, everyone here is missing the point. Currently, this is a theft deterent system.

If you own an iPod, you already know what songs are on it. Its the people who steal the iPod that have to look at it, to see who the artist is. Since, their looking down, wham, they get killed. Problem solved, no more theives.

Its so obvious.

*dies laughing gets hit by lighting*
0-o

kearney what are you talking about? people look down to find their song

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I was being stupid; not serious. Didn't really think anyone would respond.

The only problem I see with an iPod that speaks the artists name before the song begins is if you happen to have those albumns where the end of one track ties into the beginning of the next track. I know that not make me happy, since I have an albumn where it seems like all songs tie into the next song. But as mentioned earlier, I would imagine Apple would allow one the ability to turn off speaking.