What should I do with this?

[Twilight Wolf]

Today, as part of our orthodontist's treatment plan, my sister (who got her braces off today) and I both got iPods.

...iPod Shuffles. :/

I can't say I was expecting much better, and it didn't cost me anything, but still, I don't really want a Shuffle. If I want portable music, I can use my old Nano or my PSP. They, at the very least, show me what the Heck I'm listening to and let me navigate my music easily, plus I don't have to either use Apple's earbuds or pay them an extra $30 to use my own. In short, it's useless to me. So I ask you, citizens of MR, what should I do with the Shuffle I got?

 

[βeta]

Sell it, buy something useful.

 

[grossaffe]

put it in a NES controller

 

[samjc3]

Write *PLINK* you Apple on it and then burn it/destroy/obliterate it.

 

[D.J]

Write *Can'tSayThisOnTV* you Apple on it and then burn it/destroy/obliterate it.

 

[Mako321]

Put it into a laptop and call it usb compatible.

 

[Twilight Wolf]

Sell it, buy something useful.

This is what I'm leaning most towards. Selling it poses a problem, however. If I sell it on eBay, some of my earnings get eaten up by fees. I'm not sure if anyone here would want it because Shuffles are so stupid aaaaarghh

Also, shipping. It couldn't be done very quickly since I have to wait until I'm in town.

put it in a NES controller

Still have the issues I described in my original post. I could go to any garage sale and buy an el cheapo MP3 player if I wanted to do that and it would be tons easier to use.

sell it, buy some other pointless device, do something cool with it.

Again, what I'm leaning most towards.

Write *Can'tSayThisOnTV* you Apple on it and then burn it/destroy/obliterate it.

Wasteful.

Put it into a laptop and call it usb compatible.

Wha...?

 

[Ishwhale]

open it up, figure out a way to wire a tiny lcd in it, like out of a pokewalker, and cut a hole int he case to fit it. SHAZAM, you have a ipod that displays what you are playing.....however it doesn't solve the navigation problem.

 

[Twilight Wolf]

Way out of my league to figure out something like that, plus it's far too much effort for too little payoff, really, especially when I already have a perfectly good Nano.

 

[AfroLH]

open it up, figure out a way to wire a tiny lcd in it, like out of a pokewalker, and cut a hole int he case to fit it. SHAZAM, you have a ipod that displays what you are playing.....however it doesn't solve the navigation problem.

You'd still have to program it to display what is playing.

 

[samjc3]

adding an lcd would be ridiculous. the nano has no screen driver, nor, to my knowledge, does it output data on what is playing, so realistically, it isnt possible. plus its is way smarter to just buy a better mp3 player (see: sansa clip)

 

[Ishwhale]

but you have to admit, it would make him sky rocket in cool points.

 

[Yoshilime M.R.]

No, it would be impossible.

 

[Ishwhale]

Yeah we already covered that, but thanks.

 

[snowpenguin]

Maybe if someone could figure out how to program the processor on the shuffle it would be doable.

But WAY USELESS lol.