Apple has upgraded their iPhone and iPod Touch lines by doubling their storage. The new 16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch are shipping immediately and are expected to be in stores within a few days. Both new models retail for $499.

DVICE also has some interesting predictions on where this trend is headed. They are forecasting a 256GB iPhone by September 2010. Now that’s big!

This upgrade is great news for the media junkies out there. Although great devices, the iPhone and iPod Touch are limited by the amount of storage they offer. Now that these two are coming up to par in storage, they will be much harder to beat.

Designer Bomi Kim has just come out with a new MP3 player referred to as the “Tactile MP3 player”. The player has no screen, and is controlled entirely using a braille-like system. The controls are raised bumps that you can use to perform all the regular interactions one would have with an MP3 player.

It looks pretty cool and it’s perfect as a small, portable, distraction-free mp3 player for use in the same situations when an iPod Shuffle might be useful.

Photo: http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2008/01/28/another-simple-mp3-player/