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Portable Media PlayersA reader recently asked for our suggestion regarding portable video for the car. Are you going to be traveling in a car for the holidays? What's the best solution to keep your family sane and keep the number of times you hear, "Are we there yet?" to a minimum? Read on. read more » Harvard researchers have determined that earbuds like those included with iPods and most other MP3 players can be dangerous to pacemakers and defibrillators due to the magnets in them disrupting the pace, causing them to skip a beat or even shut down. The earbuds (not the cords) must come within 1.5" to have this effect, which seems pretty likely to happen at some point. read more » Dale is joined this week by a substitute host: Ringmaster Greg from Dancing with Elephants. read more » Features Apple's New Breakthrough Genius Technology read more » Fourth Generation iPod nano Features Apple's New Genius Technology read more » The Funnest iPod Ever - Perfect for Music, Movies & Games read more »
My bicycle commute to work is about nine miles in each direction and between the traffic and the various hills I have to climb, it takes about 35 minutes. The Sansa Clip MP3 player makes the perfect companion. read more » Both Coke and Pepsi are running specials right now (and have been for a while) that encourage you to collect points with which you can purchase, among other things, free mp3's. But if you, like me, enjoy both Diet Coke and Pepsi One, you may be wondering, "Which is the better deal?" read more »
Rating: 8 of 10 A couple of months ago, Dennis Gray of 101 Uses For Baby Wipes asked me what I, as a father, thought was the best electronic gadget of the past 10 years. I told him that in my opinion, it had to be Tivo with its user-friendly ability to schedule television viewing around one’s life, and not vice versa. read more » 
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Nine Miles
When I agreed to write a review about the SanDisk Sansa Shaker I thought, "how hard can it be? It's just another MP3 player!" And I guess that is the gotcha. It's hard to get exciting about another MP3 player. But when my 7 year old daughter came to me the other morning, asking me to put a new battery in the pink hourglass shaped player, I knew it was time to get this review finished.