Fancy gadgets such as the iPod and BlackBerry mobile phone are doing more than just keeping people plugged in to the latest technology. They're also seen as tools that could change history. Clay ...

The cover of The Cult of iPod, my book that documented the gadget's cultural impact. Fire, the wheel, and the iPod. In the history of invention, gadgets don’t come more iconic than Apple’s digital ...

The iPod Classic line was the heart of Apple’s digital music revolution, defining an era of portable media players in the early 2000s. First introduced in 2001 as simply the “iPod,” it featured a ...

PHOTOS: History of iPodApple CEO Steve Jobs displays his company's new product, the Mini-Ipod, at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004.

The iPod nano has officially been around for more than half of the iPod's total history. Ars looks back on five years of iPod nano reviews to see how the device changed, along with people's ...

The iPod, the device that turned Apple into a key player in the music business, revolutionized the way we consume digital media and basically defined cool for a generation, is officially dead. But ...