The iPod was more than bravura technology.  In 2001, when it was launched, MP3 players using data compression were already around, but they were as ugly and as clunky as a car battery: Apple's design was beautiful as well as useful. Two decades on, the iPod is to be discontinued, made redundant by the even more wonderful product it begat, the iPhone. This might make business sense for Apple, but it feels like the end of an era. The iPod was a breath-taking, look-again, I-don't-believe-you sensation. Not just because it revolutionised and then democratised the music business, but because it had an addictive beauty. The ingenious circular dial, the ‘click wheel' that enabled users to scroll through menus of albums and songs was both rotary and touch-sensitive, deliciously tactile. It begged to be played with, even when you weren't in the mood for music. Apple's charismatic leader, Steve Jobs, unveiled it with a flash of typical showmanship, in front of a live audience. Bono and Steve Jobs hold up Apple iPods at the unveiling of the new device in San Jose, California in October 2011 The iPod (presented by Steve Jobs above) was a breath-taking, look-again, I-don't-believe-you sensation Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the then new iPod in Cupertino, California in October 2001 The original iPod, pictured here, was the first MP3 player to pack 1,000 songs and a 10-hour battery into a 6.5-ounce package Plucking the device from his jeans, he announced that he was carrying 1,000 songs in his trousers. ‘With iPod,' he crowed, ‘listening to music will never be the same again.' The gasp from the crowd was ecstatic. Portable pop — of a sort — also had a bit of history. When I was a boy, growing up in the 1960s, my family had a Dansette record player.  Six vinyl singles could be stacked onto its spindle to play automatically, one after another. Discs slipped and, often, only the uppermost ever actually p

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A 'flying soldier' wowed crowds in Paris today when he arrived at France's Bastille Day parade on an 118mph 'Back to the Future'-style hoverboard. Franky Zapata, 40, brandished an unloaded rifle as a he raced at high speed above world leaders including President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Then he landed comfortably on his so-called Flyboard, which he hopes to sell to the French military. A 'flying soldier' inventor caused astonishment in Paris today when he arrived at France's Bastille Day parade on a 118mph 'Back to the Future'-style hoverboard Franky Zapata, 40, brandished an unloaded rifle as a he raced at high speed above world leaders including President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel 'A flying soldier!' wrote Lord Edward Llewellyn, Britain's Ambassador to France, as he posted a video of the flight on Twitter Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said that the board would be 'tested for different uses, for example as a flying logistical platform, or indeed as an assault platform.' The leaders saw French inventor and entrepreneur Franky Zapata soar above the Champs-Elysees on a turbine engine-powered flyboard. The former jet-skiing champion, grasping a rifle in a sign of the possible military uses of his device, took to the air in a futuristic showpiece of the annual Bastille Day parade Franky Zapata flies on a Flyboard during the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees Avenue with the Eiffel Tower in the background 'A flying soldier!' wrote Lord Edward Llewellyn, Britain's Ambassador to France, as he posted a video of the flight on Twitter. 'Military innovation on display at this morning's Bastille Day parade here this morning in Paris,' Baron Llewellyn added.  Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said that the board would be 'tested for different uses, for example as a flying logistical platform, or indeed as an assault platform.'   REL