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The desire to personalize the iPod as resulted in some really odd products. BusinessWeek as 9 more to show here:

In three lines of Perl.

Yesterday I got my first iPod, the black nano. And you know the drill: it's your new gadget, and it's the best of the world. But today, while reading my daily blogroll, I founded two pieces that got me thinking:

• AppleInsider shows a new Apple fillings for the iPod redesign. It seems Apple intends to abandon the Click-Whell interface, so my brand new iPod nano will soon be a museum piece.
• A video showing what the author called the OSX Leopard Mobile running on a video iPod, with stylus and sensitive screen. My first reaction was to curse for choosing the iPod nano, but than I realized the video is fake: it's a video simulating the user interface, and you can notice that by watching it very carefully. Watch the video below.
• Last, ThinkSecret says Apple will deliver a spreadsheet software (Charts? Numbers?) in iWorks'07, scheduled to launch on January 2007.

Imagine the possibilities: a camera attached to a frisbee, able to record 20 minutes of broadcast quality video, with no moving parts (capable of hard landing). For those who are feeling dizzy with the mental footage, Catchu integrates a smart wind vein on the top, which keeps the camera facing in the same direction, even when it's spinning through the air.

I wonder if NSA will look at this as they looked at the Furbys.

Just write "= rand (200,99)" (without the commas) and hit enter.