Thanks to Alex I found the MusicIP Mixer , which is a fantastic tool that detects the "style" of MP3 tracks and suggests mixes of your tunes across the whole music library...

and if you have thousands of tunes in your archive already, that IS a real solution... amazing what gems this tool diggs out...

and the best: once you find a track that really HITS your mood 100% you create a new mix tailored to that mood - and even save if for later!

Fantastic to see applications becoming more and more personally appealing... don't wanna leave the machine right now listening to MY current mood mix :-)

Happy New Year!

The iDJ can accept up to two iPods and lets you glance as a techno DJ ...

It also charges those iPods while they’re plugged in, so you can dance the night away without fear of the music stopping.

GadgetMadness :: iDJ iPod Music Mixing MP3 Console: Dance Techno Party!

Gizmodo

and by the way... almost missed the Ipod Nano release... available at Amazon & co already... Apple Nano, Tubes for iPod Nano, etc.etc.

Apple Introduces iPod nano to replace the previous top-seller iPod Mini... altough the iPod mini sales were still booming, Apple ramped down the production while in the same time boosting the Ipod Nano production to feed the previous "Mini" demand.

Like the regular iPod, the iPod nano includes a backlit color screen (with a diagonal measurement of 1.5 inches, or 3.8 cm), Apple's Click Wheel navigator, and the same dock connector that supports USB 1.1 and 2.0, but, surprisingly, not FireWire.

The iPod nano includes a few features new to the iPod line.

• World Clock displays multiple time zones (with clock faces appearing white for daytime hours and black nighttime hours).
• A Screen Lock capability enables you to assign a security code to unlock the iPod nano's controls (turning the Click Wheel into a little combination lock), while Stopwatch is useful for keeping track of your time when exercising.

some media coverage

Forbes: Apple goes Nano
Ipod Nano is a winner
Crazy Apple on Ipod Nano
Early Nano sales good but not great
Nano Review
Ipod Nano in Stores in NJ already!

more at google news

Casio brings a waterproof Bath-Toy DVD Player -

read more : Gizmodo

Just came across a nice link for replacement firmware for my iHp-140 where you can Game Boy On Your iRiver iHP-140 ... :-) LOL

Kenwood announces 20GB MP3 Player HD20GA7 - featuring a 20GB hard-drive and a 2.2 type QVGA color display.

Kenwood talks about the outstanding sound quality this player is supposed to have with it's digital amplifier. Kenwood proclaims that it is the world's first portable HDD mp3 player with such a digital amplifier... we will see... after all the whole product looks more like a "me too"-line.

it's measures are 61×104×17mm with a weight of 140g, shipping now in Japan.