Whirlpool's new Central Park refrigerator ($1,999 USD) features an attachment system that allows it to not only keep perishables cold but also dock an iPod, display digital photos, hold a tablet PC, etc. These attachment interfaces are sold separately and mount to the top of the freezer door and draw power from the refrigerator.

Few games have had the enduring popularity and genre-defining quality of Sonic the Hedgehog. A mascot for Sega ever since his debut in the early 1990s, Sonic has spawned a legion of spinoffs and sequels, and remains a popular choice for console gamers to this day. Now he's back in his original glory on the iPod.

This year's lineup is pretty exhaustive, featuring everything from the no-dock Duet 200 with two 10-watt speakers, to the On Stage 400ID (pictured), with four Odyssey drivers and a built-in sub. In between you've got the On Stage 200ID two-speaker unit and the On Stage IIIP with four Odyssey drivers but no sub. Road warriors will want to check out the On Stage Micro Color speaker dock in several colors, with two Odyssey drivers, and the On Time clock series gets updated with the 200ID and 400IHD units.

Three great new games landed on the iPod today. Well. Not entirely new games: Peggle is one, and it's new. But the other two, the old-school Sega classic Sonic the Hedgehog (debut: 1991) and the even older originally Euro / Japanese title Bomberman (debut: 1983), are new...for the iPod...but full of old-school gaming goodness, and no mistake.

As we reported last month, Harmonix (the folks behind the popular Guitar Hero game franchise) released a new musical iPod game: Phase. Basically a colorful, little version of Guitar Hero that fits nicely in your hip pocket, Phase looked to be one of the more engaging game offerings available for Apple's digital music player. As Macworld's recent review of the game indicates, Phase delivers.

Along with the recent introduction of iTunes 7.5, Apple has added another iPod game to the library. Phase [iTunes link], by the makers of the rather popular Guitar Hero series, is an interactive game that can be played while listening to songs from your iTunes library. The gameplay involves spinning the click wheel in time with the rhythm of the currently playing song in order to catch falling music notes. It's basically rather similar to Guitar Hero, actually.

This polycarbonate-crafted unit, available in light blue, orange, or white, opens up to reveal docking space for a small iPod such as the nano or shuffle or other small (smaller than 2.55"W x 4.17"H x 0.78"D) digital music player. These stylish speakers retail for $58 USD and can be had in December.

There are three flavors of Repairs in a Box, all including two-way shipping and a three-day turn around: $130 iPod Service and Repair Kit for all iPods (any repairs plus battery replacement), $60 iPod Replacement Battery Kit, $130 iPhone Cracked Screen Repair.

iTunes does not yet automatically bring this to your attention (we're expecting that in the next few hours). What this upggrade does bring, however, is the following:

Ok, first of all, just by the design of the Orb, you have to know that it's not a speaker for an audiophile. I'm not saying that round brightly colored speakers can't sound fantastic, I'm just saying that the Orb sounds ok. Not great, not crappy, just ok. It has good volume and the treble / bass adjustability is helpful. But the mStation Orb won't win any awards for high fidelity and tweens, teens and people that like their speakers without sharp edges won't mind.