Laydeez and gennelmen! What you are about to see is something you have never known the likes of before, a challenge so extraordinary, nay, so spectacular, that you will go home tonight astonished. Yes, and this is a story of biblical proportions, of heroism, of nothing less, laydeez and gennelmen, than the fight for life itself.
Tonight, here on Gadget Lab, we present the David and Goliath of gadget battles, a rumble that makes Krakatoa sound like a Leica’s whispering shutter. Gather round, laydeez and gennelmen, for you are about to witness the iPod Nano (in the pink corner) against the all reigning, all spinning champion, Washing Masheeeeeeeeeen!
Dear reader. Last week we told you the tale of the poor pink Nano, which took a cycle through my washing machine and came out dead, like a kitten flopping lifeless from a sodden burlap sack. Non-urgent action was required to save it. My prescription, informed by our sympathetic Gadget Lab readers, was rest, and lots of it, preferably in a warm place. The iPod sat for almost a week on a warm and breezy window sill until the last remains of water had disappeared from behind its single gleaming eye. Yesterday, after a final few hours sat on my MacBook’s power brick (the only substance in my home as hot as the surface of the Sun) the patient was hooked up to the EEG (Mac) via USB.
A few tense seconds later and the Apple logo appeared. A cough, a splutter and then iTunes announced that the iPod was alive. Alive I tell you! Finally, the bright backlight blinked into glowing existence. Result? A success. The only oddity? All the curse-words seem to have disappeared from songs and podcasts alike, as if washed away by some divine censor.
Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Wired.com
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