MP3 Gaze

Argh. Owning this would freak me out. It’s clearly - CLEARLY - a bloke standing with his hands in the air.

Why are his hands in the air? Having your hands in the air is the universal sign of surrender. Why is he surrendering. You’re not doing anything to threaten him. Someone else must be. But who? There’s someone else in your house and they’re doing something that’s spooked your hi-fi.

Maybe he’s a gymnast. That’s an alternative. Gymnasts adopt that position when they’ve done their stuff. He doesn’t look like a gymnast though. He’s too rigid.

Maybe he’s lauding you. It could be a pose of praise. Arms aloft. ‘Thank you, saviour, for not using me as a coffee table, like the old hi fi’.

It’s a thing that makes your iPod a hi-fi, by the way. You guessed that from the name, didn’t you?

All Intempo’s products look weird. That’s okay. It makes life interesting.

In my head, this is a space hopper for your iPod. iPods can seem a bit serious at times. They’re a bit too knowingly cool. It must be exhausting for the poor devices. Well what better way to let your portable music tool off the leash than to give it a quick blast on a space hopper. Everyone loves space hoppers - even glorified memory sticks with headphones stuck in them.

It’s an iPod dock. I’ve still got nothing to say about iPod docks, as you can probably tell.

I think iDS stands for iPod Docking System or somesuch. That’s what it is anyway. In truth, I only decided to feature it because I saw the name in the Argos catalogue and thought it sounded good. ‘Intempo’.

As you might expect, I was a bit disappointed to find out it was just an iPod dock. What do you say about an iPod dock?

I think I might be fundamentally against iPod docks. Their main role is to help portable, personal audio devices function as stationary ones that everyone can listen to. I can see the use, but I just feel it’s a bit too ‘all your eggs in one basket’. What if someone accidentally smashes your iPod into pieces with a hammer? You can’t guard against an eventuality like that.