The New iPod Shuffle

The new iPod Shuffle is pretty cool–it’s extremely small, but it’s very attractive (almost delicious!) and definitely in line with Apple’s minimalism.

It has a new feature called “VoiceOver” in which the iPod Shuffle reads aloud the names of songs and playlists.

I wonder if this would be good for the blind…

It’s also very cheap ($79 for 4 GB!).  Technology progresses so quickly (I remember the good old days when $60 got you a 256 MB flash drive.  I now have a 16 GB flash drive for $20…)!

I wonder if Apple’s going anywhere with the new advertisement design:

For comparison, here’s the album cover for U2’s newest album, No Line on the Horizon:

Is it just me, or does Apple’s ad resemble the album cover?