[Wear-Hard] Spy Video ATV-360

[Panthera Altaica]

--- On Sun, 1/4/09, jon sable <wmwmwmw at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> thats the worst packaging you've seen?   i greatly

Yes it is.  But I'm Bias as I Naively tried to use the Screwdriver I have to take apart computer s witch just happens to the perfect size to stripe the screws. (Took out hand the head witch only 180 degree turn.)  So I had to spend 3 hours finding a screwdriver that would work then 15 Mins doing nothing but turning the screwdriver(their 1 inch screws)


> dislike that plastic pakaging, that requires me to use a
> sharp knife to open it, some 4$ lockset came incased in that

I must not of.  The worst I've seen is Anti-theft welded plastic clamshells.
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-02/su_plastic_packaging

Which are admittedly a Chinese Finger Trap like puzzle but one you know the secret of how to open them and ease with any old(read dull) steak knife  and usually a good pair of scissors(just stick them through the hole that the produce hangs by).  And for thous of you that don't know 
The secret is not cutting through the welded edges. Just punch the knife though on the inside of the welding. don't try to cut a curve ether, only straight lines then pull the knife out and punch it back in at the other end of the line of you next cut.  You want to be cutting to your previous cuts not from them.

Since most of the time these packages have large flat area between the product and the edging you should be able to cut a rectangle around the product.
Note: Don't use a over sharp knife. You don't need an exacto knife to cut the plastic that hasn't been welded.

> crap???? why, couldnt they use better packaging,,,your Gripe
> is what you had to use a phillips head screw driver?

As I said my gripe is that they used 1" screws and and head size that gets instantly striped it you try using the standard computer sized Phillips.

> Are you really looking for such a low quality HMD?  or are

Note: that they seemed to have changed the design of the HMD.  all reports of the old ones indicate that you can take it apart without destroying the housing which you can't do with this one.  They have fused the Plastic pieces together with a bonding agent that is stronger than the plastic itself. 

While the glass rims the HMD is attached to does suck and the HMD has the standard Borg look problem. the only thing low quality about the HMD I've found so far is the low viewing angle of the optics.  I guess the Electronics could be low quality, but so far they have been preforming for me perfectly.

If you are talking about it only being Gray-scale QVGA.  The original PalmOS devices where only 160 by 160 and B&W (thou there was a hack to get 2 bit gray-scale).

Go read http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/ctm/idm/cases/palm.html
Or watch movie The Pentagon Wars
It's the same problem why pre PalmOS PDA's never did well(and why the PDA market in the USA completely collapsed)
The market was flooded with 'M2 Bradley's(produces that have had so many features add to them that they can't do their primary purpose  Like the Watch from SpyKids that couldn't tell time. and they are way over priced.)

IT the same thing with UMPC and netBooks.  netBooks have worst specs than UMPCs but NetBooks sell and UMPC's don't.  It's because they put en extra $1500 of feature into UMPC that at best are impractical to use and usually actual cripple the product. like UMPC ruining windows XP.  UMPC had a screen resolution under the minimum resolution required by XP which caused most programs to have to be designed specifically for UMPCs in order to run.(thou they don't actually freeze up or crash. important parts of the GUI would be placed off screen so the user couldn't actually use the program after it starts runs.)  


> I've given up on hmd's, and mostly focus on audio,
> with voice/or text to speech.

Unfortunately I have a sever hearing impairment(Auditory Processing Disorder, and if you don't think such a hidden Handicap can be qualify  as being 'severe' Let me quote Victor Hugo, "What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears. The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.") so this route won't work for me.


And I'm using this HMD to aim a camera for photography.  To Telepresence me to the end of a pole I'm holding.  Thou I know they found a way to convert on image into audio for blind people but as it was developed for blind people it probably has a high price tag.  Technology for the disable are exorbitantly expensive because 1. they have a captive user base. 2. the users don't have the pay the full Price because of Insurance and Aid Programs. 3.  The sellers don't feel they are riping people off. After going through all the loops to qualify as an 'Assistive Device' they feel they deserve an extra 300% profit margin.


Sorry if I soind grouchy.