iPod mini was born in the 50s?

Similarities between iPod and TR-1.

Technology observer John Ousby (UK) has inadvertently found Regency TR-1 semiconductor transistor image since 1954 that looks exactly like Apple's music device from style to color.

TR-1 is a pocket radio that uses the first transistor transistor to be put into business around the world.Small enough to hold on hand, battery-powered, it is designed with delicate colors such as green, turquoise, light blue, pink, white and red.

The product is released with the ad "See it! Hear it! Get it!"(See, hear, and own), just as young people are looking forward to a mobile device that allows them to easily enjoy Elvis Presley 's That's All Right song, the song that marked the Rock 'n' Roll moment. born.

High technology, trendy colors, rock music, charismatic appeal . reminds Ousby immediately of the iPod Mini.He posted the photo onFlickrand attracted 15,000 views in just a few days.

The similarities of the two publications have stirred up many personal websites, especially in the Mac community.Ousby couldn't prove that the similarity between the 50s and iPod mini's stations was just coincidence.

"I think an Apple engineer has learned a good idea, not to attribute this action to imitation," a reader on Digg said."Even Picasso is influenced by artists before him."

Many other members concluded that everything, which is considered new innovations such as the iPod mini (currently replaced by iPod Nano), originated from "some old idea".

Apple representatives declined to comment on the event.