Photos: Creative InPerson, Zen Stone with speaker, Xdock HD

What's all this, what's all this? A Zen Stone with a speaker in the back!? Preposterous, surely? We kid you not: Creative has shoved a little speaker driver into the back of the cute iPod shuffle competitors. Both the Zen Stone and the Zen Stone Plus have been given their own voice boxes that apparently "free people from headphones". No they don't. But they do sound cute.

Both models are still going to be available without speakers, but expect speaker-equipped versions to ship in the next few weeks. The Zen Stone comes in 1GB and 2GB capacities, with prices expected to start at around £30. The Zen Stone Plus comes in 2GB and 4GB flavours, starting at what we expect to be around £45.

If nothing else it'll give the chavs on the bus a new and exciting way to annoy commuters. Thank God for noise-cancelling headphones.

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