iPod fetish

let me confess. for about a couple of years now, i have had one abiding technology fetish. apple may have invented the iPod, but that has where it has left off. to make a fetish of an electronic object that has, let's say, redefined how music is consumed, for it is consumed these days, and how photographs and movies are stacked up into a virtual library of gargantuan proportions, is the easy part. what is harder, is to acquire the object of your desire. now, after pursuing amazing austerities of the yogic variety, i must gleefully say that i too have arrived. with this 160-gb black beauty i have finnaly unshackled music, movies, fotos, and contacts from terra firma. it is as you all know, my emotional security on the move. thanks to steve jobs, bach and brahms, yesudas and rahman, ilayaraja and ilanjithira melam have started cohabiting. what next from apple? maybe a gizmo that will convert thoughts into song, novel or verse!!!