No.929
Though this may be more suitable for a kickstarter, or something made by one person, I have a good idea for a physical device.
The iPod, or the iPod Classic as it was when it died, was basically a hard drive with a screen. Now that the product line is no more, I was thinking of making some rudimentary equivalent.
That led me to the problem: should I use a HDD and save on money/increase space, or use a SSD for speed? That led me to the conclusion, why not just make the enclosure, allow it to adapt to any 2.5" SATA device? That way the user can quickly swap or replace drives, or use their own old one.
So all we'd need for components would be the case to put around it, a screen, some buttons for an interface, a battery, and a board that has ram, an OS, a plug for power and audio out.
Battery would probably be the hardest thing, now that I think about it. Plus, trying to fit all that into one small enclosure might make it too big to fit in a pocket, or carry around easily.
Maybe have it connect to the drive externally, and mount it to the device itself?
Anyways, this would be a great thing to have, I'm fine with my Sansa Clip+, but I won't be able to get more than 32GB, and even if I could get more than that I'd be spending almost the same amount as a 500GB HDD
Just an idea, may not be able to execute via internet, but still possible