It would be cool if someone did this with a mirror, a small magnet, and some coils to make a portable ipod laser projector. Put the mirror on a pivot then connect one channel to one axis and the other to the other axis. Or it could be really fancy with audio filters to produce even more interesting light effects.

Posted at 1:05 am on Mar 10th, 2008 by sumguy

been done…
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/ibeams
sorry!

Posted at 1:14 am on Mar 10th, 2008 by daniel

not really, sumguy’s idea is to use mirrors in combination with the music to create a fancy (visualisation?) picture on something (wall etc.) that’s not where the iBeam is created for.

Posted at 11:33 am on Mar 10th, 2008 by mrngm

The original hack is cool, and making a laser projector thing is cool, but those griffin laser attachments? Why would anybody carry around a laser attachment that uses an ipod as a battery? why not just carry a regular damn laser pointer? not saving any size by making it an ipod attachment… pointless gimmick.

sorry, i needed to vent that somewhere.

however, a diy job is always interesting because it isn’t just about a practical end-product.

Posted at 5:13 pm on Mar 10th, 2008 by joelanders

the ibeam doesnt work through the dock connector, it works through that little hole thing on older ipods next to the headphone jack.

Posted at 9:43 pm on Mar 10th, 2008 by Alex Hatch

You guys took my poke way to seriously :)
Yes, it’s cool he did this DIY, and the porto-vis thing is an interesting idea. My point was somebody’s already thought of slapping a laser on an iPod and — besides that — sold it as a product …as absurd as it may be.

Posted at 1:44 am on Mar 11th, 2008 by daniel

Why not use a real laser to experience how powerful a common green or blue laser can be. Laser pointer can be used in more ways than tied with iPod.
Go to highlasers.com to see how it works, and work wonders.!

Posted at 5:23 am on Apr 29th, 2008 by laserlover