SanDisk has recently unveiled the Sansa slotMusic Player, which is specifically designed to only play slotMusic cards; preloaded microSD cards. It's pretty much a high tech cd player in an iPod world.

This palm sized player has no other function but to play these little music cards for you, which you would have to carry around with you if you wanted to listen to a different artist than the one in your player. And these things are tiny. A good thing about the slotMusic cards though, is that they're each 1 GB and you can slip it into your computer and either fill up the empty space or reformat the entire thing to have whatever music you want on it. (Hey, you can bring back the "mixed tape" tradition!) You can play the cards on your computer, phone or any device that has a microSD slot on it. Or you could buy the USB adapter and do things that way. Or you can buy a real mp3 player and download a gazillion songs on it and be done.

So how many albums can you choose from anyway? Not many. So far there are only 35 artists. But to make things more interesting for you, Sansa offers 5 unique players with pictures of artists like ABBA on them. ABBA? Now, I'm not that up to speed on the newest and most popular singers out there, but I'm pretty sure that ABBA is only popular these days with people my parents age.

At least it's cheap. The regular black slotMusic player is only $19.99, or you can get a special player with Akon on it for $34.99. And each slotMusic card is $14.99.