iPod
An iPod was a music storage and listening device from 21st century Earth. The Eighth Doctor described them as "portable sound file players". (AUDIO: Memory Lane [+]Loading...["Memory Lane (audio story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 2006, a young man witnessed the Third Doctor fight with a drunk man, Paul, on the London Underground. The young man had been listening to Pearl Jam and Motörhead on an iPod. Paul had been acting strangely, and soon disappeared after he was revealed to have been an alien. (PROSE: Jigsaw [+]Loading...["Jigsaw (short story)"])
Owen Harper listened to "Atlas" by Battles on his iPod while cleaning his flat. (TV: A Day in the Death [+]Loading...["A Day in the Death (TV story)"])
While jogging, Emma Webster carried a small iPod. She enjoyed listening to Girls Aloud. (PROSE: Almost Perfect [+]Loading...["Almost Perfect (novel)"])
After the death of Danny Pink, Clara Oswald observed that people "just kept walking with their iPods and their shopping bags." (TV: Dark Water [+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"])
Other similarly named devices from that era included the iPad and the iPhone. (TV: Dark Water [+]Loading...["Dark Water (TV story)"], Kill the Moon [+]Loading...["Kill the Moon (TV story)"])
In 5,000,000,000, Cassandra presented to fellow guests on Platform One a jukebox, which she mistakenly identified as an iPod. With it she played Soft Cell's "Tainted Love", which she called a traditional song, and Britney Spears' "Toxic", which she called a ballad from Earth's classical era. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"])
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The iPod was manufactured by Apple Inc., although this connection has not been made in DWU sources.
