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One gadget that is definitely worthy is anything in the quickwave/quicktalk
series from eletech. These are also second sourced by others, so shop around.
One really outstanding gadget is the dv-68 from mediawiz (and others)
http://www.medeawiz.com/e-catalog/Dv68.htm
One of these combined with some push buttons and a TV or monitor will give you
a first rate video/media kiosk. It will play mpg, avi, mp3, jpg and I don't know
what else. To use it, you put program material on an ordinary Compact Flash card
and shove it in the slot on the DV-68. Even better: no moving parts, no operating system
no computer maintenance.
Reagan Cole
Durham, NC
-----Original Message-----
>From: Wayne Watson <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 16, 2007 12:27 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: The Magic Phone Gadget?
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>Maybe someone has an idea where I can get the gadget I describe here.
>Perhaps it doesn't exist. I do a lot of support of our small local
>science museum. I would like the museum to sponsor Star Date. You may
>have heard of it. It's a daily one minute broadcast on many radio
>stations of a relevant astronomy event to the date--eclipse, comet,
>asteroid collision(!), etc. It would be very good if a gadget like a
>phone answering machine exists that will play a CD of this program
>daily. We can purchase a monthly subscription of CDs from the University
>of Texas (the sponsor of Star Date) that have the daily programs.
>
>The trick here is to have a phone at the museum which has the daily
>broadcast on it. It would be good if a gadget/device exists that queues
>up the next 1 minute program each day from the CD for a month and plays
>it whenever someone calls the phone that day. It may be that a PC/Apple
>plus such a gadget is required. I checked on this about 3 years ago, but
>no such device exists. Anyone aware of such a device coming on to the
>market with all the new gadgets hitting the market?
>
>--
> Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
>
> (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
> Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
>
> "Antecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires
> training." -- Michael Shermer, Skeptic Society
>
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