Creative NOMAD Introduced

Creative NOMAD has been revealed today, giving us one more thing to watch as 1999 keeps getting louder. Creative Technology, today introduced its highly-anticipated Creative NOMAD line of portable digital audio gamers at the 1999 Spring Internet World convention in Los Angeles. The Creative NOMAD portable gamers offer consumers a new way to download, transport and playback digital audio. Creative NOMAD gamers are offered in a solid-state, highly compact, magnesium case – designed to offer Internet audio and music enthusiasts a high-quality portable experience for digital music and audio. Creative NOMAD’s advanced packs in include voice recording, an FM Tuner, an LCD screen with scrolling text to view artist name and song title and rechargeable batteries.

For PC players, this is the kind of spec-sheet news that either matters immediately or becomes the thing everyone argues about once the drivers land. Either way, keep an eye on it.