It is about to be at the top of every Christmas list of every boy, girl and in-between this coming holiday season. (I won’t be waiting until then, but thanks for thinking of me.)

The Nano is Apple’s new addition to the iPod line and, to me, the most desirable thus far. I can’t wait to get my hands on one. Besides being pencil thin, it weighs just 1.5 ounces and for the first time it was released in TWO colors: white or black. It also has a color display, which means album art and pictures of little Jacob’s birthday can be seen by all!

For those of you still trying to get a grasp on this whole iPod thing, here’s the skinny. The iPod is a digital music player. If that just made you more confused think of it this way. If you buy an 8-track, in order to listen to it you need an 8-track player (and a trip to a garage sale or your favorite time machine), a casette requires a cassette player and CD requires a CD player. The difference is that with the last three you need the player and some other tangible item to put into the player. Digital music is transferred to the player via the computer—you don’t physically touch the files. Instead you use something like iTunes to bring your CD collection into your computer to “digitize” your favorite songs. You then plug your iPod into the computer and transfer the files from the computer to the iPod to take with you. The beauty of it all is that with the iPod you can take 1000 or more songs with you. You’d have to bring roughly 100 CD’s on your daily commute to get that kind of selection.

So if you want to be everyone’s favorite person this year, tell Lillian Vernon you’re doing the holidays without her this year.