Apple has proved to me time and again that pretty much the easiest way to take over the world and ensure total domination of a species is to make a gadget so incredibly sexy and useful that every hottie on the planet wants to drop trou and get happy with it; well, at least that's what the gallery of Nerve's last amateur photo contest makes me believe about Apple making us all into pod people. Log in and check out the winners (and I think the even tastier gallery of runner-ups for "Sexiest photo of someone - or many people - with an iPod") and see why the results have been keeping me and my Shuffle warm all weekend long. V. Blue

Nerve's Sexy iPod Photo Contest Winners (registration req'd for gallery, nerve.com)

Previously: Meet Nikki Vega, Luba: iPod Girl, iPose for Charity, Playboy's iBod Promo, Ryan Philippe's iPod Shuffle, iPod Photo and Porn, The Apple Collection, iPod Porn, Jenna Does iRiver