It took me several weeks of staring at this graphic on my screen (taken from iTunes) before I realized quite how amazing it was:

An icon of my iPod — no big deal, right? Except that they got the color right. Which means two things: first, that iTunes is shipping with icons for all iPods it might encounter. That’s nothing special. Second — that Apple took a purely cosmetic feature and coded it into the hardware so the iPod could tell iTunes, “yes, I am indeed a red iPod,” and post the correct graphic.

Tip o’ the hat, Apple.