Does that even sound plausible to anyone except Sony?

Of course ever since Apple started issuing the first iPods everybody else in the business has been trying to put together a smaller, better more long-lasting player that will take the crown away from the stylish, feature-packed player that virtually everybody out there knows and loves.

So what does Sony come up with? While design is obviously a big issue for iPod creators, the once ass-kicking mobile music mogul thinks it had found the perfect shape for the latest MP3 players, which are officially known as the NW-E300 line, but without a doubt everybody will know as the "bean line".

The main competitor for the Bean players is obviously the iPod Shuffle, the most stylish, compact "it's so small you could mistake it for a pack of gum" player Apple ever came up with. And Sony is under the impression that a bean is cool enough to compete with that.

The Japanese company will be promoting the new players as "much less complicated than all the other players out there," and we can only believe that because really know, just how much trouble can a bean be?