Turn 2nd-Gen Shuffle Into a Thumb Drive with ShuffleBud

Everyone loves the new iPod Shuffle — its clip, its light weight and low, low price. As a matter of fact, there’s just one feature from the first-generation Shuffle that people miss — its second-life as a USB thumbdrive. Now, it’s no problem to use the new Shuffle for data, provided you bring your dock […]
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Everyone loves the new iPod Shuffle – its clip, its light weight and low, low price. As a matter of fact, there's just one feature from the first-generation Shuffle that people miss – its second-life as a USB thumbdrive.

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Now, it's no problem to use the new Shuffle for data, provided you bring your dock everywhere with you to connect via the audio/USB/power port. If you want something a little smaller, you're kind of out of luck. Until now. Check out the IncipioBud – a headphone to USB adapter that's about as small as you can get. It's a little ugly, but you could leave it on full-time without reducing the Shuffle's clipability.

It's a Kludge, but it meets a need – figure out how to incorporate something like this for the Shuffle 3, Apple...

ShuffledBud USB adapter for 2G iPod shuffle [iLounge]