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Pez to Dispense Music instead of Sweets
Elteto writes "News.com has a story on Lincoln West Studios entering a licensing agreement with Pez Candy to manufacture MP3 players based on the popular candy dispenser format. As the devices will be compatible with the line of detachable heads, including the latest Star Wars character heads, this new product could be a hit with both the candy an the gadget crowds. I bet the idea also ignites creativity in many who wonder how they could insert the guts of small MP3 players such as the iPod Shuffle into various objects. The designer of the Pez MP3 player says his inspiration was the Altoid tin can."
How long until someone creates a line of Pez-MP3 players using unlicensed characters playing unlicensed music?
Two copyright violations for the price of one!
I'm a big tall mofo.
You'll have to pay more for licensing and brand name recognition for your audio player that probably won't even have the same amount of functionality as a regular one, just so you can put little interchangable heads on it? Can't you just do this now anyway? It's called Elmer's Glue-all.
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... but why can't it dispense Pez too? Wait for the Slashdot hacks article on that one, I suppose... expect the Tron Guy to come up with something!
So can I share some Pez with a friend, or is it DRM'd?
Does it have a built-in stopwatch?
small MP3 players such as the iPod Shuffle into various objects
Goatse for the modern age?
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This would be really cool until my SO's toddler latched on to it. She just loves PEZ. Might end up in the outside, maybe the basement. Or maybe, she'd just hammer on it till 'candy' came out.
I think it's cool, but I I'll pass....
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... it will be double the fun, legally, targeted against 12yr old children, for half price!
http://www.pezmp3.com/
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I believe it's called: C6H12O6 A little soft on the bass, but the highs are very sweet!
From the blog of the guy who designed it:
# The first version will be 512mb.
# There will be six buttons along one of the skinny sides.
# There will be an LCD screen.
# The head will be removeable and compatible with existing PEZ heads.
# The first production run will be small and made in the USA.
# The first production run will be early summer.
# Supports MP3, WMA, OGG, USB 2.0, mounts as flash drive.
# No voice record, no FM tuner, no Bluetooth, no Janus (Napster to Go.)
# Will be sold direct to consumer from this website (may go into retail channels later.)
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He just doesn't realize that his inspiration was those diabolically annoying 1980s greeting cards with tinny, infinitely-repeating embedded greetings music. Curse you, PezSinger! Now every $25 object will be mewling 50 Cent music at us.
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Shame the makers of the minty mp3 player didn't patent it :]
What they should be doing is designing an MP3 player *insert* that's small enough to fit into the candy slot of existing dispensers. That way they could start selling dispensers again like ringtones or faceplates.
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It would be cool if there were candy sized memory modules. You could plug 'em in and stuff to add more memory or swap out the contents.
A Pez dispenser is actually a little on the large size as far as MP3 players go.
Maybe it was the USBPez that really inspired him.
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And thus the cycle is complete.
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for an MP3 player the size of a peanut M&M.
Yes, but does it have a stopwatch?
I haven't looked into Janus much, but this ZDNet article mentions that Dell, Creative, and Rio will be offering mp3 players supporting Janus. Some players that support it:
Creative Zen Portable Media Center
iRiver PMC-120
Gateway MP3 Photo Jukebox (4GB)
iRiver H10 (5GB)
iRiver H320 (20GB)
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Riiiiight, so he didn't get it from
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/6336767343487544/
or
http://crap.mousetoy.com/pez.html
"this "hack" is making the rounds, so i wanted to get it up here. with usb drives getting smaller and cheaper, there's pretty much no end to where you could potentially put them. in this example, a pez dispenser. i'm pretty sure companies like pez may even be offering up these of their own soon with content on the drives along with that sweet sweet candy. post up other weird things that can or have been used a usb drive..."
Dug
I never liked pez because I am forced to only use their candy. What if they go out of business, then I would be stuck with a dispenser that couldn't use other candy.
In my Physics class we were required to make a robot (simple was okay, it was part of the electroincs portion). We hacked a pez dispenser. No, we didn't put an MP3 player, but we took one of those electronic pez dispensers, and added a faster dispensing mechanism and it became a pez gun that shot the pez all the way across the room and left welts in those it hit. Those pez were prolly traveling at about 150 ft/s.
Just great. Now wait 'till the kids start eating the batteries...
> hoping RIAA customs control doesnt hear when it starts playing Bob Dylan out of your ass..
Just make sure the first few tracks on your playlist are country music; that shouldn't draw any undue attention. After all, *any* asshole can play country music.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Or you can just use the case as both a ground and somthing to solder to. Here's a picture of an audio amplifier for boosting weak headphone output to listenable levels for speakers. It sounds better with a couple altoids in it (not really, but maybe we can sell that to the audiophile community?)
It's one of a kind, that's for sure.