I got myself a nifty little iRiver IHP-120 for Christmas. It was a present to myself; I agreed that I really deserved it. It's basically an iPod for geeks: it plays Ogg Vorbis, has upgradable firmware, it's detected as a standard USB drive, records audio (built-in mic, aux in or op-ti-cal in) and has an FM tuner to boot. It's just a fraction bigger than an iPod, a bit uglier, a bit more difficult to use and in a silver/black casing... You know, for geeks. Getting this thing was all part of my plan to streamline my whole media setup. I basically want to carry my music (and audio books) everywhere with me. I want it to be a practical and neat solution. So technically what I'd need would be a cradle at work, one at home, one in the car and some sort of man-bag with additional emergency cables and adaptors. Only problem is: there are no cradles for the IHPs, not for your desk, not for the car, nada. The general consensus seems to be that having cables dangling all over the place is perfectly alright but I just won't agree was that. Dangly cables are evil. So, like an elite few, I've decided to build myself a couple of cradles for the car and home (the office will have to wait). First one will be for the car as I will hopefully find a "universal" MP3 player cradle that I'll be able to tweak so the cables are neat. I will also need to find a way of getting a stereo or amp that supports some secondary input. I'll be doing this on the cheap so it might end in tears. I'll keep all you people (I think my readership has grown to 2 today, yay) updated.