Accessories for iPods proliferates
From a solar-powered battery charger that fairly shouts "eco-friendly rawk!" to a clock-radio fit for a space odyssey, there are better ways to run your iPod.
Feeding, clothing and caring for your iPod with accessories has become a major American growth industry, seeing as how Apple sold 21 million of its media players in the last three months before Christmas. Estimates put the sales market for iPod add-ons at $1 billion a year, and growing fast.
Companies like Griffin, Belkin, JBL and Bose have either launched or revived entire brand names by jumping on the iPod's goodwill marketing train.
Many of the accessories are ridiculous, of course. Do you need the $40 iFish that amplifies your iPod and flops around on the floor in time to the music? Or the iPod dock for the bathroom that also dispenses toilet paper? We think not.
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