Yeah, maybe 1 Infinite Loop beat the silhouette-dancing schtick to the ground, but kudos to Apple for creating a new iPod campaign so cool that kids are tripping over themselves to upload it to YouTube! You can watch the Prototypes-soundtracked spot in HQ right here. Shades of “Black Or White”!

Cool thing about the Shuffle? Fucking tiny! But without that glowing screen, you’d never be rescued if you fell while picking wild mushrooms in Oregon like this kid did. Although, you’d probably still be able to rob ATM machines like this dude in England!

Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the back of free standing cash machines and was able to use it to read data about customers’ cards. That data could then be used to ‘clone’ cards and use them for bogus purchases.

Free-standing machines are typically found in shops and bars, and they allowed Parsons to plug his machine into the back of them in a way that would be impossible in wall mounted dispensers.

The MP3 player recorded customer details as they were transmitted over phone lines to the bank. Tones were read as they were transmitted and used to clone cards.

British ingenuity, that is. Please, no one tell Bill O’Reilly about this. Said Baba:

I don?t own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod? If this is your primary focus in life – the machines? it?s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America

Fuck, if he heard about this he’d be insufferable. Imagine that!

Comments (15)
  1. did i see something i shouldn’t have? i thought this shuffle came out months ago…. big fuss in the media about it right now for some odd reason.

    oh, wait. christmas. right.

  2. Buckeye  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2006

    actually, it didn’t start shipping until just a week or two ago i think i read according to engadget.

    cool commercial. they always make me wish i owned an ipod. keepin the fingers crossed this holiday season.

  3. Mark Swiderski  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2006

    I can’t believe you guys have the Jay-Z album in the “Stereogum Suggests” section. It’s fucking awful. I don’t have a problem with not listening to hip-hop, but when you pay no attention to to the genre all year and then throw that well-publicized garbage up there, it smacks of tokenism.

  4. Jessica  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2006

    I’m pretty sure it did ship before a week or two ago because I’ve had one for close to a month…

    But yeah, those commercials are cool.

  5. For the curious, the new shuffle shipped on Nov. 3.

    SG thanks for the tid bits on the naughty things people are doing with their ipods.

  6. For the curious, the new shuffle shipped on Nov. 3.

    SG thanks for the tid bits on the naughty things people are doing with their ipods.

  7. For the curious, the new shuffle shipped on Nov. 3.

    SG thanks for the tid bits on the naughty things people are doing with their ipods.

  8. For the curious, the new shuffle shipped on Nov. 3.

    SG thanks for the tid bits on the naughty things people are doing with their ipods.

  9. eek! sorry for all the posts and reposts. Glitch with my browser.

  10. Josh  |   Posted on Nov 24th, 2006

    This, like the HP picture commercial, is a relatively easy effect to duplicate that nonetheless looks really cool. I look forward to people spoofing this on YouTube.

  11. krls  |   Posted on Dec 19th, 2006

    hey whats the name of the song ?

  12. it’s called “who’s gonna sing?”

  13. shannahan  |   Posted on May 2nd, 2007

    Just got an ipod shuffel.
    LOVE it. cant wait for my cousin to finish puting all the songs on it. have about 95. need alot more to fill it up about 150 i think. the best thing that could happen to me. its soo small. love it.

  14. no name bob  |   Posted on May 2nd, 2007

    la la la la la la la la
    this is dumb who wouls post anyting
    abot this.
    la la al la la la la la

  15. Shamiaya  |   Posted on Jul 31st, 2007

    I thought this is where I can put some music I don’t want this mess.;

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