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19:17 - More useful than a flower in the barrel
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8626936%5E13762,00.html
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Mark sends this delightful little story.
A BRITISH-based company is selling MP3 players which can be attached to an assault rifle.
The "AK-MP3" player is built into the ammunition clip of a Kalashnikov and can be swapped with the real magazine.
The device is being advertised on the internet by a Buckinghamshire-based company set up by a group of Russian businessmen who sell audio books.
It comes with enough storage space to hold 3000 audio books or 9000 songs.
Wow! Apple's really missed the boat on this marketing opportunity. Where's the AK-Pod? Can't Steve hold a keynote introducing it along with a new satellite-based iTunes Music Store that lets soldiers download the entire soundtracks of their favorite Vietnam war epics, so they can blare Paint it Black into their headsets as they blast through civilian villages?
It's so brilliant, one might almost think these guys had an agenda or something:
Former Russian rock star Andrey Koltakov, a partner in the dotcom company offering the AK-MP3 for sale, said: "This is our bit for world peace - hopefully, from now on many militants and terrorists will use their AK-47s to listen to music and audio books."
Dare to dream, Andrey. Dare to dream.
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Brian Tiemann
