What would fit in the original Walkman today?
This pic, of Sony's original walkman, makes me hanker for an identical-looking device that does as much as you can cram into the form factor. What might such a thing do? Given the tininess of modern computers, there's not a lot it couldn't do--but having it actually be a little UMPC or netbook would be awfully gimmicky.
How about a flip-style HD camcorder, but with buckets of storage, high-end portable audio recording, and grown-up I/O? And auto-reverse. [via Gizmodo]
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xzzy
#1 – 8:56 AM July 17, 2009
Throw in a projector, and sure. Give it an HDMI input, 720p or 1080p output, and suddenly it would find its way into everyone's travel kit.
muteboy
#2 – 9:22 AM July 17, 2009
I like it - get Techcrunch or Ben Heck on the case.
Eject button opens screen revealing QWERTY.
Small outer screen shows animated rotating reels? Naff. Keep the colours and silver buttons though.
deejayqueue
#3 – 10:11 AM July 17, 2009
If it doesn't have the Metal switch on it, I don't want anything to do with it.
strider_mt2k
#4 – 10:45 AM July 17, 2009
Agreed.
No one can destroy the Metal...
chroma
#5 – 10:51 AM July 17, 2009
Given the headphones, I'd vote for "Universal Translator".
canes816
#6 – 11:01 AM July 17, 2009
Is it just me, or does anybody else think that the size of some of today's gadgets is too much. I mean, would you rather have an iPod Nano with 8GB of storage or something like this walkman that was an iphone type device (with big screen and physical keyboard) but with a full feature/input/output set. Small is great and all, but I wouldn't mind convergence in a slightly larger package.
Anonymous Anonymous
#7 – 2:22 PM July 17, 2009
Personally, I fit one of these into my old walkman:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10203
Works a charm, accepts SDHC cards, and there's nothing more satisfying than pressing a big clunky play button on an MP3 player. Also I'm a fan of rube goldberg style contraptions.
Milarepa
#8 – 5:27 PM July 17, 2009
OK, I agree a simple netbook wouldn't cut it, stylewise.
What about a bunch of the smaller NVidia GPUs? Make a neural network architecture with CUDA, about half a million nodes or more, and you have a superior robot brain, capable of real learning.
Parallel processing rocks.
Pete
#9 – 7:58 AM July 18, 2009
There's any number of small-form computers that could go in there and use wifi/radio/bluetooth to broadcast files. Flick the metal switch to broadcast the best of Iron Maiden!