iPhone Earbud + Business Card Hacks: Speakers and Cord Winder
Two interesting submissions to the Core77 Business Card Hacks Challenge: earbud speakers and a cord winder.
photo: taipei fountain
Two interesting submissions to the Core77 Business Card Hacks Challenge: earbud speakers and a cord winder.
Contexture Design’s iPod classic and nano cases made of reclaimed 45 RPM vinyl or audio cassettes are just fine. Too bad they’re all sold out.
Last weekend, while I was putting an iPod interface into my Scion I did the same thing for my 2002 Honda Civic. Using Ben Johnson’s story as a guide, I bought a PIE HON98-AUX interface and dove in.
Aside from tools (screwdrivers and 8 and 10mm sockets), you’ll need:
The interface adapter
Audio wiring — I used a [...]
Based on this story about an iPod interface install I purchased a PIE TOY03-AUX aux input adapter so I could finally listen to my iPhone without using the lousy FM transmitter. Sure, I coulda bought a new car, as the manufacturers seem to have finally come to their senses and started including such inputs, but [...]
New 160GB AppleTV. How far away are we from a standalone unit that can download from iTunes store directly, sync iPods, and write to USB-attached burners?
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Even Bob Borchers, Apple’s senior director of iPod worldwide product marketing, calls most iPod car setups an “inelegant mess of cassette adaptors and wires.” Indeed, while Apple aparently doesn’t want to get into the car audio business, they do want to improve the in-car iPod experience:
What Apple really wants you to buy is a [...]
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music is surprisingly open and frank, almost blog-like, for the man and the company especially know for keeping secrets.
Jobs is addressing complaints about Apple’s “proprietary” DRM used in the iTunes Music Store.
There is no theory of protecting content other than keeping secrets. In other words, even if one uses the most [...]
President Bush, speaking in Alabama at the American Competitiveness Initiative, made a claim that would make Al Gore blush: he claimed to have invented the iPod.
After taking credit for the development of ultra-small hard drives, audio compression, and chemistry(?), he laid it out: “it turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development [...]
Colin has a nifty guide to your iPod’s hidden commands, like those for rebooting or getting into the diagnostics. He’s got more iPod tips if you look.
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I couldn’t help but want one when they were released. I still wanted one after reading the reviews. And I couldn’t help but think about buying one when I finally got to play with it in the store. My wife, loving me and knowing me as she does, got me one.
Yes, I got a video [...]
