35mm slide viewer hacked to enhance iPod nano viewing
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 2nd 2008 1:04AM
posted Mar 2nd 2008 1:04AM
[Via RetroThing]
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I swear I remember a post about this.
Yup.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/20/nanoscope-the-diy-ipod-nano-fatty-a-v-dock/
Good find, dude. It's bad enough this is old, but these guys aren't even reading their own blog.
The whole idea is stolen from the CRTs in the movie Brazil
You gotta give them some credit though - Engadget dupes VERY rarely. Take Slashdot as another example... FAR worse duping.
still ....
Hey, at least it was made by a different person. It'd be even funnier if it was the same guy, lol.
Nope, it was the same guy.
wouldnt buying a different player be a better solution?
This is a cool trick, but I don't see it being very practical, since:
If you wanna view on a big screen at home, us an AV dock or watch on computer.
And if you plan on using this portably... well firstoff, Portable slide viewer is an oxymoron...
But still neat.
Maybe if it upscaled the resolution to something that didn't make my eyes bleed it would be ok.
First of all, nice double post.
Secondly, I agree with riggs, if the screen is too small buy a zune, or somethign from creative or iRiver.
Thirdly, this wouldn't so much qualify as a hack, more as a mod.
maybe a Hackjobs the ugly stepsister of buyer's remorse.
and re-reading that it makes absolutely no sense.
Or Archos, who have an 800x480 4.3" device out.
yep, it just bought one. owns everything else except a 72" 1080p Plasma that fit in your pocket.
or just an ipod touch, which would probably give you about the same size viewing area as the slide viewer... and more storage.
LOL Engadget, always behind! I saw this on Engadget months ago!
lol
Dude not all of us read the entire internets, some of us only read one blog. Oh wait...
what is this? a viewer for ANTS?
It has to be at least....THREE TIMES BIGGER THAN THIS
I smell management issue in Engadget here...
This just in: bloggers are human, occasionally make mistakes.
epic post.
In addition, 4% of American men admit to wearing thongs.
Yeah, but seriously, how long can it possibly take to search the archives before writing a post? 10 seconds? The older article even comes up in the "RELATED" section for god sakes!
@Sam: Are you honestly *that* offended by the dupe? I doubt it.
Engadget is the new Slashdot...
Reminds me of those old gameboy-magnifiers!
My sister actually has one of those.
It sucked playing with a pink GBA non-SP. Why couldn't she pick unisex white... or purple. It was the "ITS UNISEX" color purple.
I was thinking that this looked familiar, and what do you know, I saw it on engadget already.
Though, this is the first double post I've ever seen on engadget, so I won't be too nasty.
but why?
since you would have to encode the video on a computer that should have a larger screen.
you're supposed to kick back and enjoy your stored movie files?
then again holding the nano to one eye doesn't help.
Surely some of you remember the beamscope? From the early 80s? A big lens you parked in front of your tv to make the picture bigger, but only for one viewer, sitting dead center, who might make it through one sitcom before the inevitable massive headache? Yes, this was before Brazil.
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