MusicMarker marks the spot

Ever walked about in public when an all-too-familiar jingle enters your ears, but for the life of you, you just can’t quite place your finger on the song title? The MusicMarker device helps you track down the deviant title, where pressing a button will record a snippet of the currently playing song. When you’re within reach of a computer, just plug it in via USB and it will automatically identify the track for you after trawling through the massive web of knowledge known as the Internet. At $19.95 a pop, this is more of a novelty than anything else, and I wonder just how wide its reach is. Presumably only the more famous songs from the English speaking world would be included – how about lesser known territories and languages?