1,000 songs in my pocket

This topic is actually a really hard one to blog about, I mean there is so much technology out there which one to choose? I could talk about television, the computer, or even the internet. But what object has combined all of these ground breaking technologies so they can fit conveniently into your pocket?

Who could think of anything else but the iPod? I have the recent version of the iPod which is the the touch (Well really they come out with one every week, so it's probably not the latest) and I can literally do anything on it. I mean who knows if you need to know what's going on in the stock market, maybe you missed the latest episode of the hills or want watch funny videos of people on youtube, or if you need to know how to get to France from Toronto you can do it all on your ipod. I can even do banking on it without having to leave my house and it is even a phone now.

You can basically use the iPod for anything, even as a marketing tool. Who knew who Feist was until she was in an iPod commercial? Who doesn't know the words to 1,2,3,4? Apple was genius when coming out with this multi tasking wonder, people pay hundreds of dollars for it and spend even more on accessories that really do nothing more for it except make it look pretty.

People seem to be so obsessed with their iPod's and according to Michael Bull, a leading expert of the interaction between people and their personal music devices, people use the iPod as a way to control their own space. Meaning that the ipod is sort of a part of the person mind and we are able to control it through the iPod. Like Marshall McLuhan had said in his interview with playboy, media is an extension of the nervous system. So really the iPod is like a attachment that you buy of yourself.

The iPod is a technology that has been proven to enhance with time. Who knows what they will come up with next or the iPod, maybe you can smell your emails?

"The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan." . Mar 1969. 24 Sep 2008. http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/links/mcluhan/pb.html.

Song, Krystle . "iPod Culture." Attack of the iZombies. 24 Sep 2008. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~krystles/iPodCulture.html.