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Apple has unveiled a minuscule new iPod Shuffle that takes its "smaller is better" mantra to a whole new level.

The third-generation Shuffle, a slim aluminium rectangle less than 5-centimetres long, takes up about half as much space as the previous version even as it doubles music storage space to 4 gigabytes.

Now that the device can carry 1,000 songs, Apple has come up with a way for people to identify the music they're listening to or find songs they want. A new feature called VoiceOver can, at the push of a button, speak the song and artist name or rattle off the list of custom mixes — called playlists — that the owner has loaded onto the device.