Retro Thing, one of my favorite blogs, points out this clever hack. The iPod nano is great, but that screen is a little small for watching movies. How do you solve that problem? Well, if you have some time, a 35mm slider viewer, and some small speakers you can hack together a solution (as seen in the video).
The movie looks pretty good, though this solution does make the iPod just a little less portable. That's the great thing about hacks, though, they don't need to be practical to be awesome.
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2-29-2008 @ 12:12PM
Shane Lloyd said...
Wow! This was on Gizmodo and Digg over a month ago. ( http://gizmodo.com/346991/nanoscope-appletv-19730 ). Breaking news!
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2-29-2008 @ 12:13PM
ryan said...
So what if it isn't 'breaking news'. It's not really time sensitive, is it? I hadn't seen it on Gizmodo, so this is the first time I've seen it and I don't give a shit if it's a month old.
2-29-2008 @ 12:18PM
Shane Lloyd said...
I guess it didn't come off that way, but, my post was more meant to comment on TUAW bloggers only now finding this and posting it. I thought they scoured the web for Mac stuff, and it's kind of surprising they drudge this out long after it had its time in the sun (albeit a short time at that).
2-29-2008 @ 12:35PM
Simon Arch said...
Well, let's put it this way, Shane. It was news to me, so I'm *GLAD* Scott posted it.
Seriously, I don't know why you're unhappy about this. It's a non-issue as far as I can see.
2-29-2008 @ 12:50PM
Shane Lloyd said...
Point taken. I guess if you read a number of gadget blogs it's interesting seeing when and how others report things. I appreciate that not everyone reads Gizmodo (I can't blame anyone for that, it's not particularly good).
Anyway, sorry if I offended you with my initial post. It comes off as snarky, even though that wasn't really the tone I had intended. I think the exclamation marks did me in.
2-29-2008 @ 1:07PM
Casey said...
Don't wuss out, Shane.
I'm here for Apple NEWS not Apple OLDS.
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2-29-2008 @ 4:42PM
Dylan said...
Although I see both sides of the argument, I really thought TUAW would be on sites such as gizmodo for any Apple stuff.
On the topic of the post, I think this is a really fun mod, and is pretty cool. But if I remember correctly, the guy had to encode the videos upside down to get them to work?
2-29-2008 @ 4:53PM
david said...
put up with the olds. other places reported on it before. big deal. you've seen it twice now. i check tuaw because it's in my bookmarks. no other gadget sites are because i dont care enough. this was a neat story.
3-01-2008 @ 5:19AM
Unregistered said...
Neat hack. Though if I were to use this hack to watch a video at home/office, I may as well watch it on the computer that was used to encode the upside down movie. :)
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3-02-2008 @ 11:46AM
Dave said...
Check on ebay:
Pana-vue slide viewer
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