Building A Museum Listening Station?

Anonymous Coward writes "I am building a museum exhibit which requires the use of 10 listening stations. These should be able to play back a few minutes of audio, should have an obvious Play button (and no other buttons: less confusion for the elderly and less to break for the kids), and should be able to work with an absolute minimum of supervision for three months of constant use. There are fancy ready-made solutions to this problem, but at $350, it would be too expensive to buy 10 of them. Similarly, there are cheap solutions ($20 CD player + $15 headphones), but this is probably not reliable or user friendly enough for this exhibit. Does the Slashdot community have any suggestions for how to build a reasonably inexpensive museum listening station?"

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easy

[kir]

Buy 10 children from a thrid-world nation. Teach each child the lines for one of the listening stations. Tape a big red button to each of their foreheads. Problem solved (except perhaps the language thing... however, one can buy English speaking children... they just cost more).

For kicks, teach them code words. This is especially useful at parties. For example, I have taught my purchased child to masturbate when he hears the words "clam chowder". It really is a great party trick.