‘iPod schmipod,' is what we say, somewhat bizarrely but then we've got Aiptek's MP3 headphones, so we don't have to worry about all that MP3 player one-upmanship.

There is no need to bother forking out dirty great wads of cash just so you can flash little whitey to anyone that cares on the train. All you need is a pair of MP3-playing headphones and you're away.

Ingeniously, the MP3 headphones house the player technology inside the headphones, so you load your tunes from your computer to the ‘phones via USB.

There's 512MB of space to fill up, or enough space for around 8 hours of music and battery life clocks in at a tidy ten hours. Better still, you can forget about loading the Aiptek's with AA batteries, since it comes with its own rechargeable battery.

It will also support both popular digital music formats, MP3 and WMA, so you needn't worry about dragging your CDs out from the loft to accommodate yet another music format.