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From TR-1 to iPod mini
karvind writes "BBC is running an interesting scoop on first transistor radio which has fair resemblance to iPod mini. The Regency TR-1 transistor radio, made in 1954, had a decent claim to be a genuine piece of innovation, however. It was, by popular agreement, the world's first commercially sold transistor pocket radio. Incidently technology watcher John Ousby realised the modern day parallels and matched photos of the transistor with photos of the iPod mini. The similarity between the two has 'created quite a stir' particularly in the Mac community."
So what? They're both small, come in different colours, and have a wheel-driven interface. So does lipstick. And radio-controlled toy cars.
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Yeah, but one has to do w/women thus no importance on Slashdot and the other isn't made by Apple. That's what
All this time I thought iPods were really cool, but now I find out they're unoriginal! Now I hate iPods. I only like things which bear no resemblance at all, accidental or otherwise, to any product previously created in the entire world.
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Compare Lisa with this.
'Quite a stir', eh? Blimey - no wonder those guys only get one mouse button. Any more and they'd soil themselves in wonder.
Furthermore, I saw my hairstyle in a cave-painting the other week. I think this proves beyond all possible doubt the existence of closed timelike curves in our universe.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
Coming to think about it, a 10$ bill also looks like the TR-1. It is flat and has a round wheel around Alexander Hamilton.
"The wheel is still circular."
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore
* Do not eat FM Shuffle.
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This is just further proof that highly complex forms suited to particular functionality don't just happen randomly. It takes a mysterious spark of intelligence to create such an elegant form.
Of course, micro-adaptation might explain the subtle differences between the TR-1 and the iPod, but the genesis of the form is surely supernatural.
Also, have you noticed that the Wheel Interface is actually just perfect for anyone having a Noodly Appendage?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
You know I just noticed that my computer monitor looks an awful lot like an aquarium. The monitor has glass on the side...my monitor has glass on the side. The aquarium has black strips on the border, my monitor has black strips on the border. Do you think Dell ripped off the design for my monitor from the aquarium manufacturer? Come on people, this is not news. There is no connection, and we just wasted thousands of Slashdot advertising dollars piping this worthless chunk of bits across the Internet to millions of readers across the world. And yes, we will waste several more thousands pumping my worthless complaint across the Internet as the giddy mindless slashdotters click to read all the comments. Unless of course I get modded down to -1, then we will only send out my subject :-)
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Coming to think about it, a 10$ bill also looks like the TR-1. It is flat and has a round wheel around Alexander Hamilton.
Brilliant. A new thieves' cant name for the iPod.
Apply a little cockney rhyming slang... let's see...
Hamilton
Hilton
Paris Hilton.
Got it. From now on, we shall refer to an iPod as a "Paris."
Used in context:
"Well, I 'ad a butcher's at that new Leamington that was Plimsolled out be'ind the bath down the Kermit last night, and what should I notice but a shiney new Paris on the dash. So, make a long story short, I put a copacabana through the Kevin, and Robert is your father's brother. Happy birthday, me old china!"
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Twenty bucks says someone with strip out a TR-1, stick a Commodore 64 in it, make it run Linux and then cluster it - but you won't be able to print and surf the 'net at the same time.
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