Okay, so we just highlighted how to build your own iPod projector, but consider this the power-of-optics weekend, because another iPod nano owner frustrated with the small-screen viewing experience has transformed a 35mm slide viewer to a full-fledged nano TV, complete with speakers. The result is called the Nanoscope, and it’s awesome. Introducing Nanoscope [YouTube via Retro Thing]
Our pals at Gizmodo pointed us to a kit you can buy which turns the plastic case that new iPod Nano’s come in into a nice looking speaker kit. Kudos to Bird Electron, the Japanese website selling the kit (sorry, I don’t know if they ship overseas, I can’t read Japanese) for this hack. Way to reduce landfill and come up with a cool gadget. :)
It could be a lack of caffeine making me woozy, but I reckon if you check out the photo on the website selling these babies, the speaker looks a little like a white ORLY owl with big manga eyes. If you’re the kind of person who anthropomorphises speakers that is. Not that I’d ever do that.
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