TECHNOLOGY COLUMN | A music player you can operate eyes-free
When you open its tiny box, the first thing you notice about Apple’s newest generation of the iPod Shuffle isn’t its miniscule dimensions — that it’s almost the same size as a stick of gum, or that it weighs less than two quarters. You notice that it has no buttons. Only a headphone jack and an on/off switch blemish the Shuffle’s pristine aluminum shell.
To circumvent this thrift, the shuffle implements a new control scheme by combining a remote located on the headphone cable and a new feature called “VoiceOver.” VoiceOver is important since the remote only has three buttons —...
