One of these arrived today. Click the picture for more details …
It’s an “iBead” digital audio player. The main unit is about the size of a cigarette lighter, only weighs 40g (less than an ounce and a half) and has a headphone socket. It fits nicely in a shirt pocket. The whole unit plugs into a USB port on your PC, so you can copy sound files on to it. It plays digital sound files and also has an FM radio built-in. It has 256MB of RAM onboard, which is enough for a few hours of music at a decent quality.
Yum. 😆
It would be fair to add that I only got one because SWMBO bought the same model last week and I was rather taken by it and she obviously wouldn’t want me to play with it, ever.