A certain precociously cranky friend of ours, misanthropic beyond his years, grumbles sarcastically whenever a car passes by blaring loud music for the whole neighborhood to hear: “Sure is nice of that guy to share his expensive car stereo with everybody else.”

For the modern materialist who likewise wants to share his or her status-symbolic iPod with friends, fellow merrymakers and passers-by, there’s the Emerson iTone. It’s just your standard tabletop AM/FM radio, except that you can stick an iPod into the topside dock, where it provides both a capacious library of your favorite music, and an ostentatious display of your good fortune to own a stinking iPod. Ooh, look at you, aren’t you the bee’s pajamas!

The iTone comes complete with adapters for all “dockable” iPod models, but without a bus pass to get you down to the employment office, you longhaired layabout.

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