Hot on the heels of the last post, here's a picture of the shiney new toy I just bought for my iPod. This little gadget allows you to listen to FM radio on your iPod and control everything with a convenient wired remote. You also get a set of earphones with a shorter cable, but I prefer to use my own, clip-on earphones.

I bought the damn thing because it was getting annoying pulling the iPod out when on the bus or walking, when the volume was too loud, or the current song was crap. I went looking for remotes at the same time that Apple released these babies. Of course, it took over a month for them to finally be available here. Of course, it also being a radio is icing on the cake.

I read an article somewhere that Apple are getting much better at being secretive and surprising the market with their products. The cynic in me suggests that this is because they don't actually produce any of these new products before they launch them, so only Apple and the manufacturer exec's and pre-fabbers know anything about them. Which, of course, means that you have to wait over a month for them to make and ship the damn things before they actually turn up on the shop floors after.