Comments on: 3rd generation iPod shuffle teardown

By: samurai1200

samurai1200 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:12:11 +0000

@malitior:

yes.

By: uf

uf — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:20:56 +0000

what is the ipod good for? Im lucky to get rid of all phones, music gizmos and trackers when walking.

By: malitior

malitior — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:48:17 +0000

i do’nt know anything abot hacking can u send me a page or two so i can learn & be ur partner

By: cyrozap

cyrozap — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:38:56 +0000

Cool ideas:

*iPod Shuffle 15th Generation

-No physical controls: it reads your brainwaves to find out what mood you’re in using tiny sensors in the earbuds.

-Using those same sensors, it can also determine a comfortable volume level for you.

*iPod Shuffle 16th Generation

-Now it can give feedback into your mind: it transmits track information wirelessly into your mind using transmitters in the earbuds

-Same features as 15th Gen

By: Louis II

Louis II — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:03:28 +0000

Even with the amazing miniaturization, I am almost certain a few modifications could let this device get an additional bit of space for more battery… but that might have to be a mod made on the manufacturing end of things.

Still… an interesting set of photos; I hope some one determines the way the buttons work and makes a jack that adds buttons to the main unit and enables normal headphone use… but I suppose that the apple ear-buds might use substantially less power to produce sound than a standard set of phones…!

By: anon

anon — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:36:13 +0000

Well, the iPhone supports shake-to-shuffle

By: JrRobin

JrRobin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:06:33 +0000

How long will it take until someone makes a 3 button adapter so you can plug standard earphones to it?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:24:32 +0000

“so when i walk/run with the shuffle, it will constantly change songs on me? that would seriously defeat the purpose of the shuffle.”

Running will only cause the accelerometers to go off in an elliptical pattern. The gestures can be carefully selected which won’t be triggered by this by accident.

You might set them off with spastic motion though, like if you have a seizure, but I think you’d be more concerned about the seizure at the time than which song you’re listening to…

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:55:14 +0000

“they should put in tiny electronic accelerometers into the thing and make it so that you can hold it in your hand and use gestures to control it if they want to rid it of buttons.”

so when i walk/run with the shuffle, it will constantly change songs on me? that would seriously defeat the purpose of the shuffle.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:44:58 +0000

They should put in tiny electronic accelerometers into the thing and make it so that you can hold it in your hand and use gestures to control it if they want to rid it of buttons.

It works for the Opera browser (I don’t ever click the back, forward, refresh, or close buttons anymore) and it worked in Black & White, now just take it to the real world. ;)

By: Rawrl

Rawrl — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:27:29 +0000

From the design geniuses at Apple that brought you such successful products as the Macbook wheel, the laptop with only one button, comes the iPod Shuffle 3G, the iPod with no buttons.

Shitsux. But then again, iPod design peaked with the original 4G in my opinion.