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  1. Terapin Mine by 3Suns · · Score: 1 · on Expensive Geek Toys Roundup

    Here's a neat toy, not exactly new, but certanly expensive and cool. The Terapin Mine is billed as a "digital camera companion", but it does a whole lot more. 10 GB of storage accessable via USB or ethernet. Mp3 playback and recording (via microphone!). Email device. Digital camera uploading (of course) and display via NTSC video out. PCMCIA card slot. Runs embedded Linux (for the added geek factor, as if it needed any). Maybe you could hack it to use a PCMCIA wifi card, although I have no evidence to support that. Beats the pants off an iPod any day, in my book. ThinkGeek sells 'em, but you might be able to find one cheaper elsewhere.

  2. Terapan Mine by HughsOnFirst · · Score: 3, Informative · on Automated Wireless File Transfers?

    I was going to do almost exactly this except without the airplane part.

    My plan was to use a Terapan
    Mine tethered to a digital SLR with the Terapan set up as the USB master
    and the SLR as the slave.

    Then I would stick a wifi card in the mine and program it to continuously
    download the files from the DSLR and ftp them to my server when it could.

  3. Re:Other options for pics? by Dr.Altaica · · Score: 1 · on Cybercafè Travel Kit?

    The 10GB TerrapinMine runs linux has PAL/NTSC video output, 10baseT, PCMCIA typeII, USB slave(Removable HDD), USB host(downloading pitures from your camara), stereo audio out, mono audio in.

    mine Developer Network to help you write programs for it.

  4. Re:Useless, of course. by ocelotbob · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Intel's 'Personal Server': The Handheld Killer?
    Think a bit outside of current usage. Lots of people have an mp3 player, a palm pilot, and a digital camera. Now they don't always carry all of them around, but they use them regularly. It's a pain in the ass to have to sync all three devices, each with its own sync program and its own subtleties involved therein. Now, throw one of these devices into the mix. You carry it around in your pocket, and you offload the storage features onto this one device. After the initial setup, you're done. It's got a pretty good processor, so integrating crypto to ensure that the 1337 d00d down the street can't run a sniffer is easier, or one could use that nice low-power processor to run a data manipulation program while you head home. You pop your pics in the device, it automatically makes thumbnails. use your audio i/o device, it automatically makes an .ogg of it.

    In and of itself, this device is worthless. Combined with devices you already use, it becomes much, much more useful. Though at the same time, this device is far from revolutionary, it's more evolutionary. A terapin mine does most of this already, albeit with a bigger form factor. Intel's goal is to make this as small as possible, so that it suddenly becomes worthwhile to work with digital media makers to develop single use, efficient devices that make transferring data easier.

  5. What about the Mine? by Myself · · Score: 4, Informative · on Small, Robust, and Portable WinCE-based USB Masters?

    Have you looked into the Terapin Mine? It sounds like exactly what you're looking for:

    USB master, USB slave, PCMCIA slot, 10baseT, and it's small! Replace the rotating-platters laptop drive with a solid state version if you're really worried about vibration.

  6. You already can buy the set top version... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Could CDRW Disks Replace Videotapes?

    It's called the Terapin. They sell 'em at Sam's Club, Costco, among others.

    ChopSuey

  7. Terapin Mine, Archos by g4dget · · Score: 2 · on Another iPod Competitor

    I don't really see much advantage of this over the Terapin Mine or the Archos player. Sure, it looks nice, but doesn't functionally matter more?

  8. What about the Terapin Mine:? by Arvoreen · · Score: 1 · on Portable MP3 Player w/ Unix Support?

    Does anyone have any experience with the Terapin Mine? I have been looking at it as a portable MP3 player, and a good place to dump my wife's digital pictures, etc. Info is at http://www.terapintech.com/fea_mine.html

  9. Re:Forcing the market change by aaarrrgggh · · Score: 1 · on Circuit City Phases Out VHS
    Nothing currently replaces the recording features of VHS, expect tivo's (costly, and not under consumer control) and DVD-r's (not currently available en masse.)

    Check out Terapin's CD Video Recorder. At $500, it's a little pricey, but that is what you seem to be asking for: Something on a consumer scale that can record video on cheap media.

  10. Other Terapin Mine reviews by k8bit · · Score: 1 · on Terapin Mine Review

    Here are a few other reviews of the Terapin Mine.

    Terapin Technology - Mine Product Reviews.