Reborn radio gets down(loads)

I missed this when it was published 2/28/2005, but Junko Yoshida wrote in EE Times: "Some call it the 21st-century Walkman, others, the next iPod. In a phenomenon that hints at Back to the Future, the humble radio is being positioned as the gateway to easy music downloads without a PC.  ¶  Radio stations in the U.K. are leading the charge to morph Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radios into pocket radios that integrate TiVo-like features such as pause, rewind and record along with an electronic program guide (EPG). Using a simple "I want this" button on models in the design pipeline, a listener would be able to download a song without having to go home, turn on the PC, search the Internet for the track, download the file and transfer it to an iPod or other MP3 player. ..."  Link: EE Times.  Thanks to David Jennings' DJ Alchemi weblog who writes more about this in a post titled, "Downloading From The Radio."  --Dennis