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Sunday

Oliver Jia

The iPod reboot

Dig into your desk drawers or the recesses of your closet and there’s a decent chance you’ll find an iPod you haven’t powered on since Michael Jackson’s last live tour. With Apple selling over 450 million since their inception in 2001, iPods were once the hottest tech item and fulfilled Steve Jobs’ promise of being able to carry an audio library in your pocket.How times have changed. Today, the average zoomer is likely to draw a blank when you say iPod, probably mishearing the word for the AirPods line of Bluetooth headphones. But, for a plethora of reasons, the iPod is once again becoming desirable. The r/iPod subreddit has over 70,000 readers and retro tech enthusiasts like Australian YouTuber DankPods attract millions of views.

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Wednesday

Ross Anderson

The Dyson Zone blows, but doesn’t suck

As Canadian smoke filled the New York air, turning the usual gray metropolis into a putrid Dune pastiche, the strangest device of the year found its moment. Potential headphone buyers, once skeptical of Dyson’s $999 air-purifying headphone/mouthguard blend, the Zone, flocked to Dyson’s website, purchasing perhaps tens of units. Now, they wander the streets with sick tunes and clean lungs. Maybe. The fires certainly filled my Twitter feed with jokes about it, but you wonder how well that converts to sales. A quick refresher on these strange headphones: last March, the world’s leader in premium home appliances announced they would be entering the highly competitive Bluetooth headphone space with their new product, the Zone. Its unique selling point? Air filtration.

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