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World's Smallest MP3 Player
Chris_Yates writes "mobiBlu is claiming to produce the world's smallest mp3 player, the DAH-1500 cube. The player is 24x24x24 millimeters (about the size of the tip of your finger or various small items), weighs 18 grams, uses OLED technology, and comes in a variety of colors. The 1GB version is currently selling for $130 at Wal-Mart. Buy one today, so you can lose it within a week!" Update: 07/25 22:56 GMT by T : An anonymous reader points out this review of the device.
Is it really that small?
I found this wee thumbnail sized MP3 player... plugged in my own earphones... hit play and heard weird static with the sound of flies buzzing played. Then my cell rang and a weird, detached voice said "Seven days..." and hung up. Any ideas?
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You'll get it stuck in your iSophagus.
powering their web server?
> The player is 24x24x24 milimeters (about the size of the tip of
> your finger
Anyone with one inch square fingertips is scary. Seriously. I doubt seeing a 1" cube I could relate it to *ANY* body part.
Having a device that small is nice, but my MP3 player is already mostly size limited by UI concerns why would I want anything smaller than a Credit card.
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Call me a geek but one of the first things I thought of when I saw this was being able to roll a 20 sided wireless die w/ speaker and have it say 'HIT!'. It could be hooked up to my character sheet and the DM computer. Throw in that overhead LCD map projector and we're good to go.
With a player that small, maybe they could just make one the shape of a hear piece and we could just change the musics with a bluetooth remote.
...here's a link to Wal-Mart's website. They appear to be nearly sold out of the 1 gig ones, though.
I dont know why you'd want a mp3 player that small, interface would be a bitch compared to the slightly larger say, ipod mini. You are obviously not a grrrl. Glue a chain and post on it and you got a music earring. In fact, I think it was at WalMart that I saw something just like it.
The player is 24x24x24 milimeters (about the size of the tip of your finger...
Sounds like it should be really easy to push the buttons to control the thing...
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The player is 24x24x24 milimeters (about the size of the tip of your finger or various small items)
I don't know about the rest of the non-gigantism population, but the tips of my fingers are rather smaller than one cubic inch.
For scale: early in the movie 'Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban', Harry causes his b*tchy aunt to inflate and blow away like a balloon. Her finger was the first part to inflate; when she holds it up, the tip of the finger appears to be about 1" in diameter.
To sum up: normal finger tips are not 1" in diameter.
/ pulled a muscle reaching for that comparison
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
If you're going for small form factor, why on earth would you want a cube? Surely the ideal is more of a thin credit-card shape, so that it'll fit conveniently in pockets. Not to mention offering more surface area for sensibly-sized controls.
I suppose this is marginally more convenient than the "caltrop", "shuriken" and "mousetrap" form factors, but it's a close thing.
1"x1"x1" = 1 cubic inch.
0.98" x 3.3" x 0.33" = 1.06 cubic inch.
And the shuffle is easier to fit in your pocket.
This thing is almost exactly the same volume as the ipod shuffle (though a cube is arguably an inferior form factor), and requires a cable to connect it to a computer instead of having a built-in USB plug.
That means it's not as useful as a self-contained portable storage device.
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The mp3-player is also known as JNC SSF-8100: http://www.jnc-digital.com.au/products_details.php ?id=66#
So, as the mobiblu site's down, who _actually_ created this?
Yup, the shuffle is easier to pocket, but a display screen, nested folders, WMA playback and an FM tuner kick in features Apple is to elitist to include. (PS, I'm writing this missive on my Powerbook...but I do think Apple is elitist.)
USB 1.1 is the same as USB 2.0. You're thinking of USB 1.0, which IS painfully slow.
USB 1.1 == 12 Mbps
USB 2.0 == 480 Mbps
So, same thing, in that they are both spelled the same until you get to the number part.
The one sold at walmart is usb 2.0
They've got nothing on iPod Flea!
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Highspeed (400+Mbit) or Fullspeed (11Mbit). I gather the last, which is practically completely compatible to USB 1.1 - same slow speed.
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This little cube is more than 20% smaller than an iPod shuffle by volume. (24 mm per side / 25.4 mm/inch)^3=0.84 cubic inches, which is .84/1.06=0.79 times the volume of an ipod shuffle (1.06 cu. in.)
It also has FM radio, which no ipod does.
It's also considerably cheaper than an iPod.
Sorry mods -- this post may appear to disparage the ipod and/or other apple products, but, um, well, ipods rulezorz!!!!111!one
everything in moderation
Not scripts, just smart folders. Unfortunately I can't just dump the XML because the important stuff is binary gibberish.
Basically, what I did was set up a series of smart folders:
2star - Rating is 2 stars and last played is not in the last 2 months
0star - Rating is 0 stars and last played is not in the last 6 weeks
3star - Rating is 3 stars and last played is not in the last 3 weeks
4star - Rating is 4 stars and last played is not in the last 4 days
5star - rating is 5 stars and last played is not in the last 25 hours
Weighted - playlist is 0star or 2star or 3star or 4star or 5star
Ambient - Genre is not Hip-Hop and playlist is not Unambient and genre is not Opera and playlist is not Flakey and kind does not contain quicktime
This works a lot better than just "play higher rated songs more often", because I know how often "more often" is. And I can tune things around, cut 5star down to 3 days or raise 3 stars up to 1 week when I'm feeling like more variety... that's how I ended up giving 0 star a frequency that's between 2 and 3 stars.
Unambient is just a regular playlist where I put stuff that I don't want to listen to while I'm working. Flakey is another set of chained playlists. I don't play quicktime in ambient because the volume equalizing algorithm iTunes uses doesn't work for quicktime.
Ogg Vorbis is technically superior to MP3, so if I have a choice (and I often do), I'll take a Vorbis. I therefore am not interested in any player that doesn't play it.