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John Lennon's Ipod

The Beatlebox:According to one satirical online news report, the idea for Apple's I-pod could have been stolen from crackpot mop-topper John Lennon who had a similar idea way back in 1968!

"Well, it's called the Beatlebox, I thought I'd love to have a portable music player... funnily enough Yoko wanted to call it the I Pod"

And now apparently the surviving Beatles are on the warpath:

Paul McCartney said "you can make computers, but don't make any music."

Unfortunately, John's iPod never made it into production... because... it was made from a fridge and weighed a thousand times more than the one in your pocket.

According to Ringo, "the thing was bloody heavy".

So whatever happened to the prototype? Paul says "I found it, and bought it at an auction, and had it converted back into a fridge".

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