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Designer â??iâ?s: iPod Gets Dressed

Thu Nov 4, 1:09 PM ET Fashion - Fashion Wire Daily

Karen Robinovitz

Fashion Wire Daily November 4, 2004 - NEW YORK - Being well accessorized does not stop at the handbag you tote. Oh no. Cell phones, Blackberries, Sidekicks now wear Swarovski crystals and sit pretty in the hot little hands of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson (news).

Hewlett Packard, the company that once gave Puff Daddy (news - web sites) a diamond-encrusted iPod per gratis, is making sure that the fashion set keeps things chic in the iPod department with removable "tattoos" â?? basically graphic stickers that wrap around the gadget to give it a touch of cool. Last week, the company, which has been venturing into the fashion industry by partnering with the CFDA and Vogue on uber-posh events and promotions, launched a "tattoo gallery" online (www.hp.com) where you can download iPod tattoos ($14.99 each) created by hot designers like Derek Lam, Doo-Ri, Behnaz Sarafpour, Edmundo Castillo and Dean Harris amongst others, as well as rock stars like Gwen Stefani (news), The Cure, Sting, The Hives (the proper printing equipment and sticker paper, however, is required).

Imagine a Prouenza Schouler tattoo that looks just like the tweed suit you covet for spring, a cheeky Libertine number with the kind of iconic downtown-cool images the designers Jason Hartig and Cindy Greene are known for, a tropical aqua, pink, and green floral print based on the fabric of a feminine Peter Som dress, or something that looks exactly like the denim of your Habitual jeans (yes, the designers of Habitual created a tattoo, too).

As of yesterday, Ashton Kutcher, Amber Tamblyn, Rachel Bilson, and Jimmy Fallon (news) were sporting a special VOTE tattoo on their music machines. And you can also personalize your own tattoos by downloading digital photos. Please, we beg you: no compromising images of Paris Hilton.

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if i ever see anyone with that backback, i am definately punching them in the face.

and that black ipod looks nice as shit, it sucks that it's all u2 themed, hopefully they will just come out with regular black ones. the u2 thing was a bad idea, just a good way to ruin a good thing.

http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/0411742428673731/

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Question:

Is there any difference betweeen the HP iPod and the PC iPod I'd get from Apple?

I'm buying an iPod for a friend with a PC, and not sure what way to go. Though the mini is only available from Apple, and I'm thinking of going mini…

Originally posted by Bags:
Question:

Is there any difference betweeen the HP iPod and the PC iPod I'd get from Apple?

I'm buying an iPod for a friend with a PC, and not sure what way to go. Though the mini is only available from Apple, and I'm thinking of going mini…

I dont think there is any difference.

It took 10 weeks waiting to get a mini ipod for Lulu. It might have been the latest gift, ever.

Why 10 weeks? I got an apple mini at the retail store this weekend. Did you mail order?

there is a company that will customize your ipod – changing the backlight color and I think the case color too. I think it costs a bunch, but if you're the kind of effete fop that cares a lot about what your Ipod looks like, you'll be willing to spend it.

Originally posted by Bags:
Why 10 weeks? I got an apple mini at the retail store this weekend. Did you mail order?

Yep it was mail order, but I called all around, including apple and they all said the same thing…. This was back in the beginning of July though.

They are planning on selling about a million ipods a month running up th Christmas.

Next question:

The question is, do I get my friend a 5GB blue mini, which is in her obssessively FAVORITE color and is lighter for jogging, which I know she wants to do…

Or do I get a 20GB, which is only $50 more.

Initially I thought I'd get her a mini and fill it up myself (I thought she'd gotten another MP3 player to use on her PC). But, turns out she never got another one, so I think it may be better for me to get her a PC one and let her put the music on (if I fill it up, she can't change it as it will be formatted for Apple, and she happens to be in Nairobi – not a lot of options). I then could bring her some DVDs with MP3s on it to pretty much fill the mini at least.

Thoughts?

Edit… nevermind.

Er, I could be totally wrong on this, but aren't all the iPods compatible with both Macs and PCs, and you can switch between the platforms with one device?

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Originally posted by bellenseb:
Er, I could be totally wrong on this, but aren't all the iPods compatible with both Macs and PCs, and you can switch between the platforms with one device?

you are not wrong

Yes, they are. I thought so as well and then I read Bags post all wrong. But what do you care Bellenseb? Aren't you one of those that thinks iPods are going to take over our lives because they don't use WMA :D

But isn't the software for PC and Apple different, so if I were to format it and fill it up on my Mac, she'd have to strip it completely and start all over to use it on her PC – that's a question.

And then, don't I choose an Apple or PC iPod at the store, so I have to get add'l PC software if she wants to use it on PC after I started it on a Mac?

Naw, I don't care about the WMA format one way or the other. As long as a player plays plain old mp3s I'm happy.

My beef with iPods is summed up more eloquently here , here , and here .

That said, iPods are appealing in many ways and I see why people like them…

Originally posted by Bags:
The question is, do I get my friend a 5GB blue mini, which is in her obssessively FAVORITE color and is lighter for jogging, which I know she wants to do…

iPod + jogging = bad

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
iPod + jogging = bad

even one of the wee ones?

Originally posted by Bags:
But isn't the software for PC and Apple different, so if I were to format it and fill it up on my Mac, she'd have to strip it completely and start all over to use it on her PC – that's a question.

And then, don't I choose an Apple or PC iPod at the store, so I have to get add'l PC software if she wants to use it on PC after I started it on a Mac?

The ipods are all mac and pc compatible.

you need itunes. Its a free download for mac and PC.

You can load up an ipod with tunes from as many machines as you like, just turn auto-synching off or it will throw away tunes on the ipod not on the computer.

If she has 100 Cds buy her a mini. If she has 200 cds buy her the ipod. If she has 500 cds buy her the mini.

I really liked Lulu's mini, its much much much nicer than my 1st generation block.