TEO MP-301 brings Jesus and the MP3 together at long last

Good lord. No, really. Good lord. The TEO MP-301 MP3 player from IceTech USA crams 1GB of media storage into -- as you can see -- a very Jesus-friendly form factor. The $49 player features a built-in microphone with voice recorder, mirrored front panel, and even a little speaker. According to reviews, the player has some serious interface issues and a weak screen, but if crucifixion is your thing, you can't go wrong with this necklace cross-cum-MP3 player. Or is that the other way around? Is this an MP3 player that's also a cross? Anyway, there you have it: the cross-shaped MP3 player, indeed.

[Via Crave]

[King Kang @ May 10th 2008 3:58PM]

HAHAHAHA!


Sorry.

[tom @ May 10th 2008 4:20PM]

It better be rock gospel songs inside and Imagine using this for praying

[Darkroom @ May 10th 2008 4:21PM]

maybe it ships with some christian rock music

[ethan @ May 10th 2008 8:23PM]

Finally, a player to listen to JusTice on!

[BrianB @ May 11th 2008 3:07AM]

Engadget has already posted about this sometime ago.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/cross-mp3-player-keeps-the-faith/

[lizzie @ May 11th 2008 5:53PM]

lol, this is such OLD news....they have these wholesale... http://www.chinagrabber.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1042

[paul301 @ May 10th 2008 3:59PM]

Jesus-friendly? They hung him up on one of those.

[King Kang @ May 10th 2008 4:07PM]

Wouldn't Jesus prefer to be nailed to this tiny, shiny and smooth crucifix instead of the huge wooden cross, including splinters, he ended up with?


This thing is a lot Jesus-friendlier to carry up a mountain, to say the least.

[egokick @ May 10th 2008 4:23PM]

hahaha. Bill hicks ftw!

[stefan @ May 10th 2008 4:28PM]

wasn't Jesus tethered to the cross?

I believe historians are very certain about that. Romans didn't nail during that time. Anyway.... couldn't imagine playing Quake with a "Rope Gun".

[scott @ May 10th 2008 5:10PM]

it was normal in the times of crucifixion to be tethered, but in Jesus' case, he was nailed.

[Nick M. @ May 10th 2008 6:06PM]

well wasn't he special.

[Aaron Wanker @ May 10th 2008 8:06PM]

Well I'd say he was.

[mymaclife @ May 11th 2008 3:34AM]

When the battery dies do you have to wait 3 days before it comes back to life?

[BigD145 @ May 11th 2008 4:57AM]

An entire 1-2 thousand years of glorifying pain and suffering all wrapped up into a neat package and made into all sorts of things from building toppers to necklaces to MP3 players. Thanks Communist Jesus. Your followers wouldn't actually know what to do if you were still alive, so just stay dead on that cross and let them make money off you.

[Josh Marshall @ May 10th 2008 3:59PM]

"...a very Jesus-friendly form factor..."

Read your Bible. :) The cross was not so friendly to Jesus.

[Chris Aubeck @ May 10th 2008 5:50PM]

The poor man may have been nailed to a stake or post (stauros), not a cross, depending on how you translate the Greek texts. So, many makes of MP3 player could symbolise Christ's execution.

[Bufsabre @ May 10th 2008 4:00PM]

theres a cap for the original ipod shuffle that makes it look like a cross


oh well

PRAISE JEBUS

[Aguiluz @ May 10th 2008 4:56PM]

Jebus?

Praise JESUS! :-D

[Derek @ May 10th 2008 8:06PM]

@Aguiluz
It was a Simpsons reference, move along.

[bartoron @ May 10th 2008 4:00PM]

So is this the MP3 player where bad music goes to die?

[Ridgecity @ May 10th 2008 8:53PM]

No. They go to die in Wal-Mart.

[Dylan @ May 10th 2008 4:01PM]

The power of Christ compels me...to bludgeon anyone who I see wearing this piece of crap.

[helloUser @ May 10th 2008 4:19PM]

sounds like the crusades...oh, how wonderful christianity is.

[Engadgetluvsappl @ May 10th 2008 4:01PM]

http://www.magazine.org/Events_and_Seminars/Conferences/American_Magazine_Conference/covers2006/IDConcept.jpg
http://www.madaboutmadrid.com/photos/uncategorized/ibelieve.jpg

"At long last"?

[gabe @ May 10th 2008 4:05PM]

now lets redo that scene from Exorcist in which the girl masturbates with the mp3 crucifix :drool:

[Esat Dedezade @ May 10th 2008 4:29PM]

...

No.

[Steve Jones @ May 10th 2008 4:30PM]

You've never been laid have you?

[gabe @ May 10th 2008 4:44PM]

no not yet - im waiting for ps3 home so i can meet my new gf in the virtual world :nerd:

[Steve Jones @ May 10th 2008 4:57PM]

In that case i'll let you off.

[andres @ May 10th 2008 7:11PM]

@ gabe
let me guess, shes from canada

[Stem $ell @ May 10th 2008 7:19PM]

Gabe-- the scene as I see it: [ RIAA possessed Regan to Father Carass:] "Your mother sucks Spocks in Dell!"

[Ridgecity @ May 10th 2008 8:58PM]

how erotic... dude, Is your real name Lucifer??

[J @ May 10th 2008 4:09PM]

Christians... they never fail to come up with something stupid

[Stiv @ May 10th 2008 4:41PM]

@J

What an incredibly bigoted statement! The company that manufactured this is not a Christian company. Neither are the other companies that manufacture some of the laughable crap Engadget features.

Get over your bigotry! Christians don't come up with stupid things - people do. Their beliefs don't enter into it.

[Ace b @ May 10th 2008 5:05PM]

@ J

Your a douche.

@Stiv

Well Said.

[Hotrod @ May 10th 2008 6:17PM]

@J

I agree with you totally brother. One time I got tipped a piece of chocolate that had Jesus crucified on a cross. One of my co-workers asked me "why aren't you eating it, is because you don't believe he was crucified?"

I replied "No, I just don't feel right biting my prophets head off."

Christians do make dumb things. For example, Diamond studded cross jewelry... Jesus lived his life giving to others, living poorly and humble. I'm very sure that if he was alive today, he would be very disappointed with such things.

[jim killer @ May 10th 2008 11:19PM]

@Hotrod

I think its just easier to just where your glasses and re-read what Stiv just said than waiting for him to re type what he just said... its not Christians..its people that are stupid.

Christianity didnt make the priest rape the little boy.. its the priest that raped the little boy.

Its not Christianity that made the church going Obama puff that reefa ..its Obama that wanted to puff that reefa.
etc.etc.

[mymaclife @ May 11th 2008 3:39AM]

@ J

Cut the guy some slack. I think a long look at what Christians do in the name of Christ will soon create a huge list of, not only stupid, but irrelevant things they have come up with in an effort to 'spread the word'.

[Fernando @ May 10th 2008 4:19PM]

repost lol http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/12/cross-mp3-player-keeps-the-faith/

[stefan @ May 10th 2008 4:31PM]

it doesn't appear to be the same one...

- capacity
- features
- colour
- brand print

[Imran @ May 10th 2008 5:03PM]

Yeah I was gonna say Engadget has already posted an article about a cross shaped mp3 player.

[Benson @ May 10th 2008 4:21PM]

So, what I want to know:

The Rio Karma has a mode to invert the screen display for lefties.

Does this have a similar option?

[Toshi @ May 10th 2008 4:27PM]

"Wouldn't Jesus prefer to be nailed to this tiny, shiny and smooth crucifix instead of the huge wooden cross, including splinters, he ended up with?"

I agree. At least he would die for our sins while listening to his favorite rock band.

[Dan Davis @ May 12th 2008 11:15AM]

Creed?

[allenvanhellen @ May 10th 2008 4:30PM]

Can I put Amy Grant MP3s on this, or is she too secular?

[happy_penguin @ May 10th 2008 5:35PM]

Listening to Amy Grant is worse than burning in the fires of hell.

[Taylor @ May 11th 2008 2:23AM]

How about some Marilyn Manson? Or is he too satanic?

(I'm not a Christian and I don't particularly like Marilyn Manson to be honest. However, Muse is good and Matt Bellamy's an atheist, like myself)

[Vinay @ May 10th 2008 4:30PM]

Teo, with a line?!!

Why, was Rio with a line, taken?


Lol!

[happy_penguin @ May 11th 2008 4:32AM]

I kinda like Manson. :) Love me some Muse too!