Collaborate Disseminate
The Google Home Mini can be a useful home assistant device. It can set reminders, tell you the weather, and even play you music. [Brian] had a few lying around, and decided he wanted to hook one up to a beefier set of speakers. Thus, he installed a headphone jack …read more
Following time backward, for portable music we’ve had iPods, CDs, and cassette tapes which we played using small Walkmans around the size of a cigarette box. And for a brief time before that, in the 1960s and 1970s, we had 8-track tapes. These were magnetic tapes housed in cases around the size of a large slice of bread. Car dashboards housed players, and they also came in a carry-around format like the one [Todd Harrison] recently bought at a Hamfest for $5 and made more portable by machining clips for a strap and adding a headphone jack.
But before hacking …read more
Plenty of people bemoaned Apple’s choice to drop the 1/8″ headphone jack from the iPhone 7. [Scotty Allen] wasn’t happy about it either, but he decided to do something about it: he designed a custom flex circuit and brought the jack back. If you don’t recognize [Scotty], he’s the same guy who built an iPhone 6 from parts obtained in Shenzhen markets. Those same markets were now used to design, and prototype an entirely new circuit.
The iPhone 7 features a barometric vent, which sits exactly where the headphone jack lived in the iPhone 6. The vent helps the barometric …read more
One message was clear at yesterday’s Apple keynote: Buy into their lifestyle or become obsolete. Continue reading Apple’s Newest Product Isn’t a Phone or Watch, It’s a Lifestyle
Before, wired headphones were just headphones. Now they’re part of choosing what team you’re on. The post Apple’s Trading the Headphone Jack for a Standards War appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Apple’s Trading the Headphone Jack for a Standards War
Headphone jack, we hardly knew ye. Continue reading The 6 Things You Need to Know About the iPhone 7
Hands off our headphone jack. Continue reading Here’s What We Want the iPhone 7 to Look Like
