Wednesday, September 08, 2004

WSJ.com - So Your Roomba Vacuums ... Does It Also Take Pictures?

WSJ.com - So Your Roomba Vacuums ... Does It Also Take Pictures?: "Sometimes tinkering can make money. Shortly after the MuVo2, a portable music player made by Creative Labs Inc., hit the market for $199 earlier this year, hackers discovered that its core was a miniature disk drive with massive four-gigabyte storage capacity that Hitachi Ltd. was selling separately to digital-camera users and others for $499. Soon, disk drives stripped out of the MuVo were showing up on eBay for around $250. The empty players -- which could be refitted with standard memory chips -- fetch $35 or so."

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