You've got to hand it to modder Mark Irwin, who did his fellow tinkerers proud by assembling a bunch of found objects into a very handy audio / video dock for the squat new
iPod nano. The project is brilliant in its simplicity: Irwin just carved a nano-sized slot in an old slide magnifier, embedded some discarded speakers, and ended up with a super-handy viewing station on the cheap. Check out the video after the break for inspiration on how you, too, can help put an end to this national
Made for iPod nightmare perpetrated by Griffin, Belkin, Monster, and their
evil cohorts.
Now this is like Apple TV....but useful.
The ViewMaster version will be way better.
http://www.worldwideslides.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/mod_l_red.jpg
Lol, delightfully low tech. Exactly the same as the magnifiers they used to make for the gameboy.
Not quite exact. This lens flips the image upside down, and creates a greater magnification then the lenses released for the gameboys.
False. The video is re-encoded upside-down and appears right-side up when the nano is upside-down.
peshue, don't let Lamar Vannoy ruin your nostalgia. Pokémon Blue for the win.
THAT'S THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF!
i still have one of those, WITH lights in the back so you could play in the dark.
Pokémon Red FTW ;)
Share some of the Charmander love I shall
It's reminds me of "Brazil" and "12 Monkeys."
great movies man
Thats pretty cool, now to make one for my sansa :P
Is it Gizmondo copycat day today?
What? You read Gizmodo? Who the hell reads that crap nonetheless copy it?
Shoo!
Heh. I was bored and Engadget hadn't posted anything new in a while. Otherwise, no, I don't read it.
I love how you where so offended that some random person on the internet slighted your reading tastes, you felt the need to reply just to justify your statement...
...be your OWN person
Wow...Tough crowd...
Better more portable solution- Get a Zune!
^doesn't get it.
I get the concept, it's just impractical in today's world of PMP's.
That's the first time I've seen "Zune" and "solution" in the same sentence.
You still don't get it. Its not supposed to be practical. There are several PMPs that would make viewing easier, but this is a neat, low tech, homemade mod. Its just for fun, and has a nostalgic feel.
My only thought is that I would not want to have those magnets (in the speakers) that close to flash memory.
Actually, is flash based memory effected by magnets?
No. Only HDDs.
Zoolander? It's not a bad movie, but it's not something that I would actually spend money on to own.
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Correction: The "Made For iPod" program was an APPLE creation. They forced third-party makers to go along in order to get the "Made For iPod" logo on their products. It is not the fault of "Griffin, Belkin, Monster, and their evil cohorts." It's ALL Apple.
Don't be like Giz. I know you have to report similar stories, but Engadget usually gets the details right. You should make the correction.
hmmm... personally I would have played the movie Brazil in the demo.
Good thinking!
Chances are if gizmodo has it on their page engadget shouldn't want to put it on their site.
And yet they did...Puzzling...