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Apple Store Manager Gives iPod To Soldier Who Mangled His In Afghanistan
Remember Aaron, the Marine who wrecked his 120GB iPod Classic in Afghanistan by accidentally letting it get run over by a Humvee, then slamming it in a Humvee door? Aaron told us his story to express...
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iPod Explodes In Class, Killing Nobody
An iPod erupted on a high school science room desk in Pentucket Regional High School in, MA yesterday. Supposedly… …it was broken and a kid took it apart and was rubbing wires against the battery,...
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If You're Looking For An Outdated, Barely Usable MP3 Player, Walmart's Got...
Sean discovered this forgotten relic of the MP3 player evolution on clearance at his local Walmart. He may have slipped through some sort of flux capacitor-facilitated wormhole that took him into a...
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Apple Replaces The Out-Of-Warranty iPod Touch I Broke For Free
Unlike houseplants, iPod Touches don’t take kindly to watering. After Emily accidentally victimized her device in such a manner, she contacted Apple to see what it would cost to replace it. When she...
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Report: Apple May Phase Out Older iPods
As Apple prepares to unveil the iPhone 5 next week, it also may soon bring down the hammer on the long-beloved but now largely obsolete iPod Shuffle and iPod Classic. Citing an unnamed source, The...
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Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Can Get You VHS Tapes And The Greatest Hits Of 2007
Our readers aren’t just ordinary blog tipsters: you’re retail archaeologists. Consumerists across the nation explore discount stores and sale racks, searching for gems of outdated technology. You are...
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Walmart Marks Ancient MP3 Player Down To Slightly Less Hilarious Price
Bad news about that Walmart Music Store though We have great news for fans of obsolete technology! If you’ve been waiting to get hold of an MP3 player that’s old enough to receive its First Communion,...
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Our Favorite Hot MP3 Player From 2005 Still On Walmart Shelves
In our recurring Raiders of the Lost Walmart series, we’ve become slightly obsessed with the MobiBLU MP3 player. That’s the tiny, cube-shaped music device that hit stores in 2005 and, for some reason,...
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This 9-Year-Old MP3 Player Is Ready For The Latest Tunes, Costs $300
If you weren’t all that familiar with technology, this “portable media center” that reader S. found in the clearance section at Walmart might seem like a reasonable enough purchase. What isn’t obvious...
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10-Year-Old MP3 Players Fail To Fly Off Walmart Shelves At $80
When will the MobiBLU, the world’s smallest full-featured MP3 player in 2005, finally sell out? Maybe never. The devices are doomed to roam Walmart aisles for years to come, reminding everyone that...
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Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Find Ancient iPod Case, Rare Full-Price MobiBLU
It was almost three years ago that one of the Raiders of the Lost Walmart excavated their first MobiBLU, a mini MP3 player that was the hottest entertainment technology available from Walmart in 2005....
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