You'd think there'd be a market niche for deliberately unfashionable stuff. Except of course that'd just become fashionable, the way scruffy and torn clobber becomes fashionable. Or at the other extreme, Burberry became so fashionable it got banned in some places.

iPod - the drawback to them, as I understand it, aside from price, is the way they use a built-in battery, and when it wears out it's a problem getting it replaced. They seem pretty well made.