Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the new Apple iPod media players in San Francisco, California, Wednesday. - Reuters

Apple Inc. on Wednesday unveiled the iPod Touch, which allows users to download songs wirelessly.

The iPod Touch is just less than one-third inch thick and can store photos, music, videos and other digital data.

It features the same 3.5-inch, touch-screen display as the iPhone, on which light finger touches allow the user to scroll through menus and resize pictures with two fingers.

includes wed browser

The iPod Touch includes the Safari Web browser, with Google and Yahoo search engines and easy access to YouTube videos.

An eight-gigabyte version of iPod Touch will cost US$299.

A 16-gigabyte version will cost US$399. They will be shipped worldwide starting later this month.

"It's one of the seven wonders of the world - it's just incredible," CEO Steve Jobs told employees and journalists gathered at a special media event.

Jobs also unveiled other new versions of the company's market-leading iPod, including an iPod Nano with a 2.5-inch video monitor for watching movies and playing built-in games.

The current version has a two-inch screen but does not play videos.

"It's incredibly tiny. It's incredibly thin," Jobs said of the new Nano, which features a 320-by-240-pixel screen with 24 hours of audio playback.

"We think it's really, really beautiful."