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Yep — the same folks that enabled your iPod nano 5G to become an underwater camera have just created yet another underwater armband for Apple’s latest. H2O Audio’s Amphibx Grip is specifically designed to keep the latest iPod nano and iPod shuffle shielded from the harmful, oftentimes fatal effects of liquid, promising a “100 percent watertight and secure seal that provides waterproofing up to 12 feet.” We’re told that the ClearTouch Window allows for full operation of touchscreen and button controls, and if you’re wondering, the company would be more than happy to sell you a set of waterproof earbuds to go along with it. Check it right now for a penny under $60. Michael Phelps would.

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Were you jealous of Japanese commuters getting to ignore their car’s multichannel audio system in favor of a bright, 16-watt thermos of beats in their cup holder? Then today’s your lucky day, because Audiocubes.com has brought Sony Japan’s SRS-V500IP — which is the iPod friendly version of the RDP-NWV500 sound mug — state-side. Like the NWV500, it’s also available in colors of black, orange, and happiness-inspiring pink, and packs the same Circle Sound Stage speaker system for a full 360 degrees of tuneage. If you don’t own an iPod, a 3.5mm audio jack is thrown in to connect other devices like Sony’s S740 Walkmen — double the imported Japanese audio gear, double the Cool Person Points, right? Currently priced at $240, its U.S. availability still doesn’t really clarify its practicality. Especially when you consider that your new shiny iPod Nano’s color scheme won’t even match!

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Admit it: When you saw the puny touchscreen iPod Nano you thought, “That could make a cool watch.” Accessory makers thought so, too, and a handful of them are already selling fancy straps to turn your iPod Nano into a watch. The truth is you don’t really need to waste money on any of them, because you can do it yourself in two steps.

Really all you need is any fabric strap. The iPod Nano has a built-in clip on the back so you can just clip it on to the center of any thin strap. It’s a sturdy clip, too, so unless you go skydiving or regularly get in bar fights, it shouldn’t wiggle around much.

Check out our photos below to see how I converted my military watch (with a NATO watch band, which you can get for about $10) into an “iWatch” in two easy steps.

Now the question is, when will we get FaceTime on a Nano? Then we’d really have that dream Dick Tracy or Jetsons watch.

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Photos: Brian X. Chen/Wired.com

This accessory was as inevitable as the hangover that follows the annual Gadget Lab post-CES party (where we enjoy a fabulous dinner at Denny’s followed by cheap wine sipped from stolen paper-cups in the liquor-store car-park). As soon as we saw the new iPod Nano’s clock-face app, we knew there would be a wrist-strap for it. We weren’t disappointed.

The strap has the pun-tastic name Rock Band and comes from a company called iLoveHandles. The Nano can be set to use the clock as its lock-screen, so a simple touch is enough to bring up the face and check the time. The Rock Band is a wrist-strap onto which the Nano clips (it has the same clip on its back as the Shuffle) and becomes an oversized wristwatch. Well, oversized if you’re not used to hefting a tacky chunk of gold Rolex on your arm, that is.

It’s a great idea, and not really that much different than the sports armbands that have held Nanos to the upper-arms of sporty people for years. I guess that if you were actually going to listen to music while wearing this, you’d need to run the cable up a sleeve to stop it constantly snagging, but that’s not big deal.

The Rock Band is $20, and is surely only the first in what will be a rather crowded market.

Rock Band product page [iLoveHandles. Thanks, Avik!]

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What, you didn’t think iFixit would stop at just disassembling the new iPod touch, did you? The all-new nano has also been sat atop the workbench, handed a bottle of hard liquor, and told to close its eyes and count to 120 million. The 6th-gen device weighs in at 67 percent of the volume of its precursor, with a slightly thicker body and that integrated clip on its back. Its 240- x 240-pixel display offers a 220ppi density, which, within Apple’s ranks, is bettered only by the Retina Display on the fourth generation iPhone and iPod touch devices. Regrettably, just as with those two machines, the 2010 nano has its front glass, LCD and touchscreen assembly fused together. One handy bit of news here is the battery size, which at 105mAh is what you might call paltry, but still doubles up the 2010 shuffle‘s 51mAh. All in all, the conclusion from this dissection is that the new device feels more like a shuffle with a screen than a miniaturized nano, which, when you look at the form factor, makes all sorts of sense. More at the source.

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