Idly clicking through Auntie Hairoiled's website trying to find something that I can't remember what it was now, I read this:

PC World will today become the UK's first national retailer to stock gadgets that turn iPods into mini FM radio stations, albeit with a limited broadcasting range.

Ahh... what now? PC World moving into retail... in the UK? Well, no, not quite: over in Blighty, there is no PC World. Instead, it's PC Advisor for the Brits.

Idly clicking through Auntie Hairoiled's website trying to find something that I can't remember what it was now, I read this:

PC World will today become the UK's first national retailer to stock gadgets that turn iPods into mini FM radio stations, albeit with a limited broadcasting range.

Ahh... what now? PC World moving into retail... in the UK? Well, no, not quite: over in Blighty, there is no PC World. Instead, it's PC Advisor for the Brits.

That story in the Herald though (it's actually from The Independent) is quite interesting, about the iTrip FM transmitter accessory for iPods. At first, I thought, very nice, you can spam others by transmitting whatever's on your iPod. Wireless podcasting!

A closer read says otherwise though. I think the idea is that you get yourself an iTrip and then... play back the content of the iPod on your car radio or the tuner at home. How prosaic.

Why not build a two-way transceiver device for iPods, so you could share and share alike? I guess the music studios (and film ones too, now that we have video iPods) would go ballistic at the thought, but I reckon it'd sell.

Just imagine flash iPodMobs, where lots of dead cool gen-somethingortheother peeps hang and mash-up each other's iPod content.

Hmm, on second thoughts, scratch that idea. It'd look completely ridiculous.