With the iPod Mini's arrival this week, the press is once again jumping on the opportunity to praise and publicize Apple's MP3 players. The Washington Post of an iPod snow sculpture on display this weekend at the Festival du Voyageur in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Winnipeg was just RIPE to have an ipod ice sculpture. I'm surprised it took this long. I'm willing to bet there will be about 10-15 ice sculpture rip-offs. Dell DJ, iRiver, etc.
... Calling it an MP3 player already?
after Apple adds real PIM capabilities to the iPod instead "oh wowie, I can view my iCal calendar". View but not edit is a useless feature.
I hope they don't add PIM capabilities. The iPod is first and foremost, a music feature. However, I do think iCal viewing is *very* useful and doesn't get in the way of the iPod's primary purpose. One doesn't always have to edit calendars.
Turning it into a PDA will just complicate the interface, losing one of the main reasons to buy an iPod - the ease of navigation.
Having the "clicks" under the scroll wheel somehow sounds very cool... but what about activating click functions while trying to use the scrolling area to change volume?
What do you want them to call it? An AAC player? A music player? What???
Suprised to see our creation on the web! We did this sculpture to 20x scale. Started with a 8' x 8' x 8' block of snow and it took us a combined 35 hours. Weather was a bit nippy at -24 Celsius plus a wind.
We had to skip the iPods backward lean because of safety reasons. Other creations in the past included a Mac SE/30, PowerBook 180 and original iMac (I believe this is where Apple got their idea of the snow iMac)
You have just redefined the meaning of apple zealot.
Christ - reading this makes you think that listening to music while walking in NYC is a new thing. I used to live on 22nd and work on 51st... and my MP3 player at the time went everywhere with me. This was in 2000. Way to stay on top of a trend, NY Times!
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A snow sculpture?
Oh god. Now I've seen everything.