Grab a few old Android devices--maybe N1s--turn off their cellular and wifi radios, load them up with music, and use 3.5 mm audio cable converted to whatever your aux input is on your existing system. Some 3.5mm audio cable can be purchased with/cobbled together to include built-in play, pause, and track skip buttons... Also, there's the rooting factor for most Android devices as well as the fact that most non-Apple smartphones use some variant of microUSB for charging and syncing.
...but so do dogs that are trained to do the same thing. But unlike a dog, a robot won't chew your shoes, defecate in the yard, or lack opposable digits to pop the top on a beer bottle. Still, that entire issue of looking for a charging port in the middle of the night kind of bothers me.
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Grab a few old Android devices--maybe N1s--turn off their cellular and wifi radios, load them up with music, and use 3.5 mm audio cable converted to whatever your aux input is on your existing system. Some 3.5mm audio cable can be purchased with/cobbled together to include built-in play, pause, and track skip buttons... Also, there's the rooting factor for most Android devices as well as the fact that most non-Apple smartphones use some variant of microUSB for charging and syncing.
... I misread acetaminophen for amphetamine and pondered what an island of pissed-off, speed-addled brown tree snakes would look like.
No obligatory Douglas Adams quote?
For all we know, there is a galactic Internet accessible via quantum effects of some sort. Tapping that would be first contact.
Great. We hook up to the Galactic Extranet and what do we get? We become a node in some ET's botnet and get bombarded with ads for "space Viagra."
What could we possibly mine on an asteroid that could be worth the enormous cost of retrieving it from the asteroid belt?
Element Zero.
This must be what developers mean when they say pirates ruin gaming.
There's a Somali warlord who plays EVE online who's kicking himself right now...
but they should install piezoelectric sidewalks and crosswalks.
of the Antares System.
...but so do dogs that are trained to do the same thing. But unlike a dog, a robot won't chew your shoes, defecate in the yard, or lack opposable digits to pop the top on a beer bottle. Still, that entire issue of looking for a charging port in the middle of the night kind of bothers me.