Broadcast Music from Your Pocket

It's bad enough that some of our gadgets have become small enough that we can easily lose them on a moderately cluttered desk; but even the accessories are continuing to shrink as well.

Griffin Technology's $49 iTrip Pocket is the latest addition to the company's line of iTrip FM transmitters, which allow iPod, PSP and Zune owners to listen to their music tracks via an FM radio, eliminating the need to mess around with cables and fancy adapters. The hook is that the iTrip Pocket is designed to fit with the second-generation iPod nano's design, and is maybe a third of the tiny player's size. (It also works with the first-generation nano and the fourth and fifth generation iPods -- it just won't look as chic.)

Like most FM transmitters worth mentioning, the iTrip Pocket has three frequency presets so that once you find a good setting you can easily reuse it. And just in case you've forgotten where you are on the dial, Griffin's SmartDisplay shows you the current frequency on the iPod screen. It's all quite useful, but now you have to be extra careful not to lose the iTrip Pocket in the change bowl.