Review: USBFever iPod Wired Remote Control

I used to carry a camera/mp3 player around in a fanny pack during my high school days. The player had  play, power, and prev/next track buttons that I could feel through the lining of the pouch, so it was like my awesome grade 10 utility belt of entertainment, and I thought it was the coolest (read: ridiculously dorky) solution I’d ever thought up. Ever since then I’ve been pretty obsessed with the idea of having my device’s hardware buttons accessible at about belt level.

This brings me to the USBFever iPod Remote — one of the most exciting things I’ve seen in USBFever’s catalogue as of late. The device promises to make up for one of the major drawbacks of the iPod Touch: the lack of any hardware playback buttons. It can be easy to forget about this small detail amongst all the cool new features (wooooah web surfing!), but it’s something that’ll eventually creep up on you after years of CD Player/Sansa/Creative Zen/iPod use. You reach down to pause on your iPod Touch and realize…hey, what gives?!

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