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With the first 30 minutes of waiting nearly complete, another flash of lightning held up play again. Harvard spent the time in an indoor track trying to stay active...
TECHNOLOGY: Bye-bye, iPod? Buy a flash player for as little...
...BEEN LONGING for a portable MP3 player but have no intention of shelling out $250 to $400 for an iPod or one of its many imitators, there is a much cheaper--and in some ways equally coolchoice: a flash-based MP3 player. These handy devices, which store songs on a small silicon chip, cost about $100 and are often as small and light as a pack...
Unlike the iPod and similar music players that rely primarily on hard drives to store songs, flash players have no moving parts, which makes them less susceptible to damage if used while jogging or if you drop them. And they are so petite, they fit into the tiniest handbag or pants pocket. In a unique design, Virgin's wearable 128-MB MP3 player ($100) is the size and shape of a silver dollar and can hang like a pendant around your neck...
...Because flash players are so inexpensive--we found some for $35 on the comparison-shopping site BizRate.com--manufacturers are making nearly three times as many of them as they are hard-drive-based models, according to research firm IDC. Most play both MP3 and Windows Media files and run on a single AAA battery, which lasts about 12 to 20 hours. FM-radio tuners and audio-record features are often built-in (and rarely found on hard-drive players). Flash players weigh about 1 oz., compared with 6 oz. for an iPod...