p2pnet.net News:- Yesterday we had an mp3 player that doubles as a camera.

Today, here’s one you can wear around your neck.

France’s Shinco has come out with the Medaillon, a line of mp3 players that can also be used as USB storage devices that boot PCs into embedded Linux, says LinuxDevices.

The top-end €159 (almost $199) model comes with 256mb of Flash, weighs about half an ounce, is about 1.7″ around, and 0.4″ thick, and has a teensy rechargable battery offering eight hours of playback time.

So it’s cool personified, and it gets better.

“The Medaillon also come with an embedded Linux distribution called Shinux, and can be used as a boot device on PCs with BIOSes that support booting from USB storage devices,” says LinuxDevices. “PCs without such a BIOS can be booted from the Medaillon using an included CD or, presumably, with a boot floppy of the user’s own devising.”

It’s also Win98/2000/XP/Me/Mac compatible, says Shinco.

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See:-

camera – m:robe – pix and music, p2pnet, October 14, 2004

boot PCs – Petit MP3 player boots PCs into Linux, LinuxDevices, October 15, 2004

Site – Medaillon

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