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2008-09-22 , 17:25
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
The battery could definitely be a backpack design, though. Make the device flat-bottomed with rubber feet, so it sits nice on a table, but also have slide-lock notches to slap on a battery. (I'm thinking 3.5" drive but 2/3 the thickness for the bare device, and that much more for battery.)

If you do it right, you could slap a HDD on instead of the battery pack, and power the whole mess via wall-wart. (And if you do it really right, you could slap on both, and get limited shock-resistance and battery-life, but still have mobility and cheap storage.)
I like that idea a lot.
  • Basic device with _some_ internal storage (2 or 3 SD cards, one for OS, one or two for user storage).
  • External battery pack (people already make those, just have to be sure it'd work with whatever is delivered)
  • Ability to power an external storage device (either directly over USB, or via the battery pack ... so hopefully the battery pack chosen can power at least 2 devices).
  • Some sort of casing that will allow you to conveniently attach them together for easy carrying (slots and rails? lego snaps ?)

Though, that's starting to sound an awful lot like what the Buglabs project is for. I don't remember if they have battery and storage modules, though. That and a PCMCIA or ExpressCard module would probably be enough for _me_.
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