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This may sound stupid, but what exactly is a "shake" feature, and why does the design remind me of a thermos?]]>Apr 14th 2007 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/Apr 14th 2007 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/Apr 14th 2007 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A0984537

seems to be on sale at Dell.com and you shake to change the song, SD Memory card included... 16MB?]]>Apr 15th 2007 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/
If they can get marketing down pat (read: silhoutted dancers), then this can be a decent iPod competitor.]]>Apr 15th 2007 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/
Ooops.I forgot.Hold Function.]]>Apr 15th 2007 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/Apr 15th 2007 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/Apr 15th 2007 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/Apr 15th 2007 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/
And ruin their love for music forever??? :)]]>Apr 15th 2007 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/Apr 15th 2007 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/
I had a similar idea called the Pop Shaker. It was supposed to look like a bottle of soda, and when the shuffle feature started to repeat songs or played a song you didn't want to hear, you would hold down the "cap" and shake the unit to rearrange the order in which the songs were played. The LCD display would double as a sort of window inside the bottle, and you could tilt the unit while it was playing songs to watch the "liquid" slosh back and forth inside it.

People told me it was a silly idea because if you were jogging, the songs would constantly be interrupted. I guess Sansa either found a way around that or the tilt functionality works differently than how I had imagined it.

JR]]>Apr 15th 2007 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/
If we can have more than just Apple thinking like this then the whole gadget market might get out of its current mode of photocopied products.]]>Apr 15th 2007 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/
for the shake feature, you have to hold a button while you shake it.

did anyone mention that it has a built in speaker that activates if the headphones aren't plugged in?

and there's no lcd.]]>Apr 16th 2007 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/14/sandisk-sansa-shaker-does-mp3s-for-the-kids/http://www.answers.com/topic/shoqbox]]>Apr 19th 2007 5:38PM