X-Box meets iPod

Sounds sorta like a classic "Frankenstein Versus The Mummy" kind of Hallowe'en B-movie, don't it?

It all started innocently enough.

My eldest daughter Jo got to wondering recently, "What would happen if Microsoft tried to copy the iPod (since Microsoft is always trying to copy Macintosh)?"

A few creative ideas, a little bit o' Photoshop savvy (Jo is becoming quite the digital artist), and voila! The X-Pod:


Be afraid. Be very afraid.