[Telecom] What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:32:04 -0500 (EST)
Novelties
What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You
By ANNE EISENBERG
The New York Times
January 6, 2008
"HACKERS, welcome! Here are detailed circuit diagrams of our products
- modify them as you wish."
That's not an announcement you'll find on the Web sites of most
consumer electronics manufacturers, who tend to keep information on
the innards of their machines as private as possible.
But Neuros Technology International, creator of a new video recorder,
has decided to go in a different direction. The company, based in
Chicago, is providing full documentation of the hardware platform for
its recorder, the Neuros OSD (for open source device), so that
skilled users can customize or "hack" the device - and then pass
along the improvements to others.
The OSD is a versatile recorder. Using a memory card or a U.S.B.
storage device, it saves copies of DVDs, VHS tapes and television
programs from satellite receivers, cable boxes, TVs and any other
device with standard video output.
Because the OSD saves the recordings in the popular compressed video
format MPEG-4 (pronounced EM-peg), the programs can be watched on a
host of devices, including iPods and smartphones. The OSD is for sale
at Fry's, Micro Center, J&R Electronics and other locations for about
$230.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06novel.html?ex=1357275600&en=592b7920b10cf008&ei=5090
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