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#62373 - 23/01/2002 16:54 A Wireless 802.11b portable player...
SE_Sport_Driver
carpal tunnel

Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
I could have my HSX-109 or my RioCar (or whatever) streaming my collection to me while I mow the lawn. .... sure it wouldn't have great range, but it would cover my house (or within 300 feet of whereever I parked)... If it was cheap, this would be awesome. Maybe instead of accepting (or in addition to)memory cards, it would also accept CardBus cards so you could pop in your 802.11b or Bluetooth card at home and a NIC card while at work and tap into the lan... browseing content and songs...

Just thinking out loud.
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#62374 - 23/01/2002 16:58 Re: A Wireless 802.11b portable player... [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
Hmm. If it ran the Rio Receiver firmware, that would totally rock. I know I would like one.

It would be hard to market, though. Most people would want it to go farther than their yard. They'd want it to be broadband internet through a wide-area service, not 802.11.

As it stands right now, the HSX-109 will squirt tunes into a portable for you before you head out to mow the lawn. Either that or what you really want is an Ipod or a Rio Riot.
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#62375 - 23/01/2002 17:05 Re: A Wireless 802.11b portable player... [Re: tfabris]
SE_Sport_Driver
carpal tunnel

Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
Or the Rio - LawnMower with built-in noise cancelling headphones (a must for suburbian life). hehe
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#62376 - 23/01/2002 22:23 Re: A Wireless 802.11b portable player... [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
hybrid8
carpal tunnel

Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
Your product right now is called a PDA (PocketPC variety). I don't know of anything down the pipe that would have this functionality and be music-only.

Bruno
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#62377 - 03/02/2002 01:52 Re: A Wireless 802.11b portable player... [Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
redbutt2
member

Registered: 12/01/2002
Posts: 141
Loc: San Diego, CA
I think that the best use for 802.11b wireless would be the ability to sync and manage the Empeg while it was in your car in the garage. Granted, if you live in an apartment complex and don't have a garage, you are most likely not leaving the thing in your car, but I would like to be able to leave it in my car at home and manage it remotely...that I would pay for...maybe
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#62378 - 03/02/2002 12:14 Re: A Wireless 802.11b portable player... [Re: redbutt2]
Terminator
old hand

Registered: 12/01/2000
Posts: 1079
Loc: Dallas, TX
People have already done this. Just install a ap in your car and rig up a connector on the docking cage.

Sean

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#62379 - 13/12/2002 20:45 Re: A Wireless 802.11b portable player... [Re: Terminator]
lefty
new poster

Registered: 20/11/2002
Posts: 5
Any details on this?

I'd like a daemon to nightly send new mp3s from my PC to the rio in the garage.

I'd like the ap to only power up when the car is OFF, and the Rio is in...

That way, I could create a way to "TiVo" favorite radio shows on my home PC during the day, and get them on my Rio the next day...

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