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Sometimes, the days of holding a good old CD case in our hands as we listen to an album makes us yearn for simpler times when MP3 players only held a few gigs of data. This concept by David Friedman mixes the modern technology of digital displays, high powered PMP systems, and the days of old jewel CD case, to offer up a solution for those nostalgic times.

The digital jewel box would synchronize with iTunes and display album art and linear notes as you listened to your music. Just like the days you used to go out and buy an album on Tuesday, only to come home and pour over the liner notes as you listened to your newly acquired album. The concept would also double as an infrared remote, allowing you to control the song and to preview the next albums track list. — Andrew Dobrow

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Things are really starting to get exciting in the tech world, do you realize that? With the creation of the MusicCard, we will all now be able to own MP3 players, only slightly thicker then the average credit card and about the same length. The next step of electronic and personal identification is on it’s away. I can smell the workings of tech companies in the air. Meizu’s MusicCard (M3), is Meizu’s answer to the ipod nano, except possibly cooler, and much more unique. At 6.9mm thick, the M3 only has a .9mm thicker body then the nano (and a much tighter ass).

The M3’s long battery life of 20 hours, is impressively 19 hours longer then the amount of time my carnival-won goldfish lived after it was in welcomed to my home (I miss you, Goldy. We only had a short time together, and I was only 7, but I fell in love.). The sound quality on Meizu’s previous models is superior, and the M3 is said to have even broader of a sound field, which will be interesting to hear. The display and OS remind me of the newer Creative Zen models with their blue backgrounds and progress bars. With better sound quality then the Zen’s, and with the option of a 2, 4, or 8GB storage unit, the M3 looks like one badass gadget. — Andrew Dobrow

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