iRiver Release New Hideous ‘Mickey Mouse’ Swarovski Studded MP3 Player

If someone had asked me even yesterday as to whether I could ever envisage iRiver releasing a digital audio player that I wouldn’t automatically fall in love with I may have smiled, shook my head and told them not to be silly, but the seemingly impossible has happened with the release of iRiver’s new, and frankly hideous looking, Swarovski studded Mickey Mouse MP3 players.

Measuring in at a mere 40.5 x 46 x 30mm, iRiver’s new 4th generation version of its Mickey Mouse DAP, apart from sending shivers of revulsion down our spines, comes with 1GB of internal storage capacity, measures in at 40.5 x 46x 30mm, weighs 21g and offers a purported battery life of up to nine hours but, when a DAP looks this terrible, frankly we really don’t care about specifications.

Four new designs are on offer, these being (get your sick bags at the ready), ‘Flower ray’ featuring Hawaiian style, ‘Liberty’ with the motif of little flower, and ‘Ethnic’ featuring resort style (as detailed by Aving).

Retailing in Japan for the equivalent of $137, we can, on this one occasion, just about forgive iRiver for these abominations but quite whether we’ll ever be able to get over the emotional scaring is another issue entirely.