Michael Kobrin from PC Magazine has written an interesting article about the iPod rumors.

So what's the latest scoop on Apple's next iPod offerings? If you put aside for a moment the fact that no one really knows because Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about the future, we've got plenty of dish for you. (Note that these rumors are not in chronological order.)

Rumor #1: The Touch-Screen iPodEveryone's been asking me if any of those Photoshopped images of a video iPod with a touch screen and virtual click wheel are for real. All I can say for sure is that Apple has indeed filed a patent for something like that (shown above), which is what the doctored images are based on. Hopefully Apple is listening to the clamor for just such a device, and it would certainly jive with some of the other rumors out there, like…

Go read the rest of the article over at Yahoo!News.