I like to know things about gadgets, although saying that, I very rarely dip into the communion money to get something shiny and noisy (ok, bar the €70 mouse I got last week). But I decided to get the iPod nano. I forgot to actually read up on anything it does before purchasing, because I trust apple at this stage.

After ordering, I watched the video on apple, and the thing looked freakin' cool. You can shake it and it skips to a random song in your library. If you shake it like a polaroid picture, it will skip to a song by Outkast!

As I was saying I like to know things about Gadgets. Well, this "Genius" thing has really thrown me. Actually, it amazes me. This single invention is, in my opinion, the next step towards globally shared interests and "Cloud computing" (I guess...).

From what I can tell, apple takes a goo at your library and then compares it to everyone elses, giving you back your shared interests, so it can figure out what albums are alike and songs are usually owned by a number of people. It's kind of like the amazon, "If you like this ... you'll probably like these because other people also bought ...", except it so much more sublte and actually has produced really good playlists for me over the last few days.

The best thing about "Genius", is that it trasfers to my Nano, so I can create playlists on the fly. Just think, your in the car, you put on a song you like, hit Genius and boom (to quote mr. jobs) you've got 25 great songs you're in the mood for.