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It works. People like it. Redesigns are expensive.

Maybe they'd change it to avoid getting sued by Samsung for copying the Samsung Digital Photo Frame design: http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/artikelen/47/samsung_digital_photo_frame.gif

Yeah, that looks exactly like an iPad. Especially the back.

It works. People like it. Redesigns are expensive.

Maybe they'd change it to avoid getting sued by Samsung for copying the Samsung Digital Photo Frame design: http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/artikelen/47/samsung_digital_photo_frame.gif

Bear in mind that a lot of phones get their own specialised outer casing compared to the standard version, so I doubt it would be much work to just make a small modification such as the socket.

Take for example the HTC Hero: Standard Version and the American Version.

no. http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/producten/2210/testrapport/nikon-d3000-battery.jpg

Right, but while SLRs (or any camera) may _seem_ simple, they aren't, take a look at the cut-away diagrams some time. Even a disposable style film camera would require a lot of testing too.

I wonder how often the cameras need to be updated. They certainly don't need to do annual model replacements, updated cameras rarely change significantly. I bet a five year old SLR that's been certified will do the job just fine, keep using them until there's concern about something breaking.

I thought some of the considerations were interesting, Olympus made a special space version of one of their cameras: http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/21760/olympus-slr-camera/ Particularly, the removable caps are clear so you can see if anything is floating inside, to avoid accidentally releasing pieces into the living space.

Yeah, I don't really see what was so suspicious about the guy?

Here's a photo:
Scene from the REI ATM


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"Hard drives, while they may fail, are still probably your best chance."

I tend to agree, however I'm a bit confused over what exactly is being requested.

"I've thought about buying a bunch of 4GB thumb drives....I have less than 500GBs and only save things important to me."

At first glance I thought you had 500gb you were trying to store, but then you mentioned "buying a bunch of 4GB thumbdrives" and I can't imagine someone buying 125 4gb thumbdrives to use for backup. So exactly how much data are you trying to store?

If less than 50gb, I'd suggest a few SD cards. 8gb SD is ~$11, or 16gb for $30. While more expensive than hard drives per gb, SD cards are remarkably resilient, surviving a week in the ocean, and a few in a ziplock bag stored in a safe deposit box would probably last close to forever.

SD will probably still be around at least for the next decade or longer. SD has already been around since 1999 and all modern card readers read SD cards by default. SD slots are in nearly every form of consumer electronic device, and every manufacture of digital cameras uses SD except Sony and Olympus, almost guaranteeing the card readers will be around for many years to come.

I would suggest against USB anything since they're already discussing cutting the cord on USB and going wireless USB. While I don't predict that will happen overnight you wanted a solution that would be available decades from now, and wired USB might go the way of the parallel port, which was the standard external port in the 80s and 90s but was replaced by USB late 90s. Parallel port only had a lifespan of about 20 yrs and is no longer on modern PCs, and USB has been out just over 10 years so it's feasible in 10 years PCs will no longer have USB ports, everything will be wireless USB.

One of these things in the cargo hold can lead to things like this.

iPod Nano

Chemical oxygen generator

Please stop trying to tell me that these two items have an equivalent risk of causing a fire in flight. I wasn't aware I looked that stupid.

There are already a few Ricoh cameras which can connect to a GPS device (bluetooth or serial, I assume) so this is a pretty stupid way to get GPS info on photos. I can't find the official product page, but here's a random link: Caplio 500SE B/W. I don't have one so I don't really know how exactly they work, but I'd guess better than this hack.

True, current standards are 66MB/s it has advantages over either other option. Like the DDR solution there is no performance hit for non-sychronous transfer, it consumes less power then hard drives, and takes up less space. It's primary advantage over the DDR solution is that it is non-volitile.

Also, acording to this article, IDE and PCMIA Flash drives should hit 133 MB/s this year. http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/stor y_5838.html And it was reported not too long ago on /. that 16 Mb chips(2MB each) are going into production and will lead to significantly larger drives. So, it's non-volitile, less power consumption, soon to be almost as fast, and significantly larger.

Like DDR it has the penalty of being insanely expencive compared to hard drives. At over $50 a GB (for flash) compared to $1 per GB (For hard drives), it's a plainly clear choice which way to go.

-Rick

there are quite a few reviews with pictures:
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/sony/dsc_r1-revi ew/index.shtml
http://www.letsgodigital.org/html/review/sony/cybe rshot/dscr1.html
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/r1.htm l

This is the same idea as the FujiFilm S9000/S9500 i.e. a DSLR/compact hybrid.

Actually, Canon also uses Sony CCDs (perhaps not in all their lines, but clearly in some):

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/552292/
http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/stor y_4732.html

It's not the fact the print head is in the printer, it's the fact that the print head has 3,900 nozzles allowing it to print width swaths at a time.

See Here

Nice article about the new system and printer here.