Toshiba displays 4GB audio player with 0.85-inch drive

Toshiba's new 4GB audio player probably won't get too many pulses pounding. Yeah, it's got Bluetooth, which is definitely rare in a hard-drive player. But from the pics we've seen, it looks awfully cumbersome and clunky for something so small. No, the real news here is that this is one of the first devices to use Toshiba's new 4GB 0.85-inch hard drive, which got a lot of buzz (as well as a place in the Guinness Book of World Records) when it was unveiled last year. If Toshiba is able to get these out in quantity — and we're confident they will — we should see some 4GB players not much bigger than today's flash units by year's end.

[dramjo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

My first impression was that this is some new medical device. It looks like something you would find next to a hospital bed. Just out of curiosity, would nurses find this device sexy!?

[Bob @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

i was thinking the exact same thing, this lump looks like it should be reading your glucose levels, rather than playing songs!

[Tomas @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Funny, #1 and #2, that's what I allways thought of the iPods...

But I agree, this is no better. I liked the Giga Beat player they showed at CES though.

[Permanent4 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Not to beat a dead horse, but wasn't that rumored new PDA from palmOne supposed to have a built-in 4GB microdrive? Maybe it's of the 0.85" variety?

[AznFX @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

hey wtf, y do i think this looks like an incredibly good idea?