iPod 5th Gen — Clear Housing

The transparent one. Because in 2003 we believed that the future would be see-through, and then it was not, and we have never fully recovered.

Rehoused in clear polycarbonate so you can watch the actual circuit board do its actual job. The orange click-wheel ribbon is visible. The hard drive is visible. Everything is visible. It is a device with nothing to hide.

what you can put on it

Roughly 7,000 songs, none of which will be streamed, interrupted, or algorithmically recommended to you. You will make a playlist by hand, like a medieval scribe.

notes

• Click wheel: clicks.
• Battery: a used battery from 2005, doing its absolute best.
• Bluetooth: no. Absolutely not. Never.
• Pairs with the Koss headphones below. They were born in the same year.