The Gadgets Page

Here is the original promotional video for iPod. We had this original iPod, but only PCs, so we had to have a special cable to plug the iPod into the computer. Aside from that, the iPod was oceans easier to use than any other MP3 player that we had tried.

Sad thing is, Mike commandeered it and didn’t let me use it until he got a Nano years later.

It still works, although the hard drive wheezes and whines as if it is near death.

I’ve just come home from babysitting my nieces and nephew. We put them to bed and had a couple hours to wait until their parents came home and our iPhones kept us busy. No laptop. No television. Just Mike and I using our iPhones to watch television, listen to music, answer email and read RSS. If you had told me that I would be able to do this much with my phone back then, I would have placed the laurels on Palm, but it was Apple who finally brought back the Newton, rechristened and MUCH more useful.

Thanks, Apple.