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Astrocloud · 02-09-2004, 08:25 PM

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For the Man Too Macho for an iPod

Soldiers of former Soviet Bloc nations, Third World guerrillas and drug gangsters may soon have it all.

A British company plans to begin marketing an MP3-player adapter for the widely used AK-47 assault rifle (search), reports the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia.

AudioBooksForFree.com, who describe themselves as "the No. 1 U.K. online MP3 audiobook publishers," says their "AK-MP3 Jukebox" contains 20 gigabytes of storage, enough to hold about 5,000 songs.

The player is modeled on the AK-47's ammunition clip, claims their Web site, and can be mounted as such onto the rifle, or carried separately in a camouflage-colored case.

"This is our bit for world peace," the site quotes one of the company's partners. "Hopefully, from now on many militants and terrorists will use their AK-47s to listen to music and audiobooks … They need to chill out and take it easy."

Retail price is expected to be $600 with 300 mostly public-domain audiobooks preloaded, or $350 without. The Web site says the players will be available in May.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110913,00.html

And for the people who absolutely must have a picture this is straight from the marketing website: http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/kalashnikov/Ak-mp3.asp