Olympus m:robe multipurpose camera

There are few details and even fewer pics, but apparently Olympus is going to challenge FujiFilm's FinePix 40i and come out with the m:robe, a new multipurpose digital camera with picture viewer that pulls double duty (or is it triple duty?) as an MP3 player. You can even attach music to your images, so we can't wait to have "Ice Ice Baby" paired with all those pictures of us breakdancing on cardboard that we're planning to take. Pricing isn't set yet, but this one should be out in early 2005. Okay, we give up, who thinks up these names? We were honestly expecting a pair of silk pajamas with a built-in camera when we heard the name.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:47AM]

It's interesting to see dedicated HDD mp3 player from a Japanese manufacturer, at least in the US. Come to think of it, there weren't very many when I was in Japan, either (I only recall ones from Toshiba and Aiwa). I wonder how all the "little" things will be (battery life, included software, gapless playback, etc) on the two models...