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WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 2006 12:00 PM

Disposable MP3 Player for Nine Bucks

Submitted by WilWheaton

Edited by WilWheaton

CoolTechZone just gave me a little geekgasm with the news that we'll soon have acces to a disposable MP3 player:

The simply designed player runs for five hours off of a single AAA battery, and can hold as many songs as you can cram onto your SD card. That's right; Evergreen keeps the cost very low by letting the consumer provide the memory. Considering most of us either have SD cards lying around or know where to get one for cheap, this is a pretty reasonable idea.

So as RAM continues to drop in price and eventually becomes as disposable as paper (something my futurist geek friends have been predicting since 1990), MAKE-ers will be able to come up with all sorts of cool projects. I, for one, think something like this would be really cool as a travel bug.

CoolTechZone also says that this would be a great gift for a kid who isn't ready (read: responsible enough) for an expensive iPod.

How long before someone whose business model is threatened by this declares that it will be used by "The Terrorists," do you think?

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Comments

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN

June 2003

APR 13, 2006 01:51 AM

Jack_Straw said:
maybe they just break really easy. I know a few people that have already thrown out half a dozen nanos

Valid point. iPod's are already disposible. My kid brother has gone through six, but only paid for two.

Vadennoi

San Jose, CA

December 2005

APR 13, 2006 04:54 AM

Frank said:

Jack_Straw said:
maybe they just break really easy. I know a few people that have already thrown out half a dozen nanos

Valid point. iPod's are already disposible. My kid brother has gone through six, but only paid for two.

There's a big difference between things wearing out, bring disposable and abuse. Nano's have only been out, what? 1 year? If someone's gone through six, I'd say they're a dumb shit that can't handle their electronics.