World's Smallest MP3 Player

Chris_Yates writes "mobiBlu is claiming to produce the world's smallest mp3 player, the DAH-1500 cube. The player is 24x24x24 millimeters (about the size of the tip of your finger or various small items), weighs 18 grams, uses OLED technology, and comes in a variety of colors. The 1GB version is currently selling for $130 at Wal-Mart. Buy one today, so you can lose it within a week!" Update: 07/25 22:56 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points out this review of the device.

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spin is a polite way of saying, "lying"

[SuperBanana]

To sum up: normal finger tips are not 1" in diameter.

"Spin is a polite way of saying, 'lying'". I forget who said that, but I think it was during a Charlie Rose interview. The guy said that after decades of "spin", we accept, both as consumers and voters, the most outlandish concepts.

"I know how to run a business, that means I'd make a great governor" was one Mitt Romney used, except that his hard-hitting my-way-or-the-highway style pissed off the entire statehouse, and he hasn't accomplished a single thing he promised he would. That style works great in business when you're the head of a mega-powerful takeover/investment firm like Bain. Works great on a personal level too when you're rich, white, and a powerful businessman (and before anyone gets too uppity, I had a close friend who worked at Bain for several years. Romney's a dick.) It does not work on a political level where you are one of three branches of a government (you're not "the boss", by any stretch of the imagination), surrounded by "the enemy" in a "liberal" state with a lot of other entrenched egos who see you as nothing but a johnny-come-lately looking to get into the white house.

Marketers have for decades hinted at crap like "If you don't use our toothpaste, she won't fuck you". Why are you surprised they claim a 1" cube is "fingertip"? It's shown in photos with a male hand, which from the proportions is itself enormous. They're trying their damnedest...

It's tiny, and impressively so; it makes the Shuffle kind of look like the 2001 Monolith. Why can't they just say "it's really really small"? If I had been in their shoes, I would have just shown it next to the quarter and said "about the size of a quarter". Credibility in marketing is a powerful thing, at least to me.