Homemade iPod Hi-Fi mini

Simon Clement writes "Decided to add to the Apple product line with the iPod Hi-Fi mini. Here's the web page detailing its features, and there's also a link to a Flickr set showing how to build your own."

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[roger6106]

Just what the doctor ordered
Worried about Digital Rights Management? So are we. With the iPod Hi-Fi mini we've gone the extra mile. Although the 400k floppy disk drive has been removed we were left with the nagging feeling that someone would figure out how to slip a disk through the slot and copy at least part of a song. Have no fear. Introducing Dr Mesh(TM) a high tensile grill that neatly fits the floppy drive slot preventing even imaginary piracy, yet allowing sound through unimpeded. What about those times when you realize that the song being played may not have been legally acquired? That's why the paper-clip hole remains in place. Once you'd use it to eject a recalcitrant disk, now we've carefully angled the hole so that, with a simple lunge, you can pierce the speaker cone, stopping piracy in it's tracks.
Digital Rights Management. It's in your hands.

Re:I wonder...

[Mr. Underbridge]

I wonder how many people will build this setup and then listen to it with the iPod's shitty earbuds?

Um, since the setup in question is a speaker, I'd say anyone who builds it will probably listen to it.

Re:Some would call it vanity

[tddoog]

Although my brain tends to enjoy Martin Logans

How does your wallet feel about them? Mine cries out in anger.

Re:Who decided to add to the product line?

[Anonymous Coward]

This post needs a grammar check.

Sigh... Frankly, I couldn't care fewer.

Re:Is it only me...

[roman_mir]

or was the article lacking any significant text? - pfffffft. With a lower /.ID but with only 241 comments you must be new here. Who in the world reads TFAs? :)