@nerd

your credit card company doesn't reimburse you for fraud? time to switch

@Shandy

I paid my tree service guy with an old nextel version of this. there are plenty of mobile services that need a way to except more forms of payment than cash/check. you, sir (or ma'am) (or thing), are incorrect.

@NAME

nextel has had something like this for years. so the only difference is now you can be defrauded by hipsters and not just blue collar folks

too bad i can't get on xbl anymore for some strange reason....

ahh-booo-yahhhh

man, where was this a week ago. This would be great for my HTPC. Settled for a ms wireless desktop 3k, but would have preferred no numpad

@levi
what the f are you talking about. first of all, i said it was a nice idea. thats called a compliment. second, I was addressing the confusion that the software he referred to was running on the PC. I was trying to explain that the software he refers to is the code running on the atmel microcontroller. thats why this is an elegant solution, there is no software needed on the PC to dump roms. you moron.

yeah no shit sherlock

I doubt this thing needs drivers. it looks like the microcontroller is emulating a mass storage usb device. so the uc identifies itself as a mass storage device, the pc requests a directory listing, the uc tells it there is a file there, then when the pc calls goes openfile() / readfile(), it dumps the rom... i guess.. at least thats how i'd do it. nice idea.

good question, i have the a110 and it plays DVD iso's, haven't tried bluray isos. I'd guess it'll play a decrypted ISO before it'll play an encrypted disc...

I don't know if this will trounce my HTPC setup for my projector movie room. the A110 got demoted to my bedroom for a few reasons, occasionally i had issues with certain videos (a few that were remedied by firmware updates, a few that are still there) and of course I needed a blu ray player.. and the web services like youtube were unusably slow...

I like my a110 alot, unfortunately its not the end-all be-all. but its as close to it as i've seen. looking forward to seeing what this box an do