WowPod – The Big, Insane iPod

When talking about portable media players, people usually like them small. Sometimes, players can get ridiculously small, like the iPod Shuffle or the EZAV Pebble, also sold as Datasafe oomi. While there are people out there calling these tiny music players "wearable," I can only call them "loseable," and I don't have to explain why. Going right into the other extreme, we have large MP3 players, and the one I'll tell you about today will surely make you go "WOW," believe me!

So...this is it! You saw it, and that's all. Oh, wait, you think this is some Photoshopped image? Well, no matter how hard to believe may be, it's not. The WowPod is one of its kind, and it was born from passion for technology and art. Unfortunately, you won't be able to buy one, but...

...you can go and touch this "interactive media sculpture" and play with it(all controls working!), since this large-scale iPod is available at the Winzavod art center, in Moscow. Created by Aristarkh Chernyshev & Alexei Shulgin, the WowPod may look like a twisted large copy of the original, but those that have seen it claim it works well, and it sounds pretty cool.

All in all, this is one unique piece of "gadget art," if I can put it this way, and if you're going to visit Moscow, you surely need to see it! If you're not...there's the website, of course, and it's better than nothing, but I would really like to see the WowPod in action... Any of you able to help with this?