Untangle & Listen

Patricia Post, Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange

(CMLE)

This is a “green”

10-minute segment of

the program.

Please reduce, reuse & recycle.

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Landfills: A messy problem! lets be part of the solution…

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What if we use new technologies to power old technologies?

What if we reuse what we already have, yet get some new things too?

What if….

Get Wired! Experiment.

Be playful.

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It’s a plug and play world...

Don’t be fooled by marketing efforts around new technologies….

Do you have any of these lying around?

Old Technologies

Do you have a 1970’s stereo system lounging around?

Garage Animal

New Toys!Do you own one of these MP3’s? Others?

You’ve Got All of the Ingredients

Tiny, high-density-storage devices (MP3’s)

+ Assorted high quality sound systems

= Freedom from earbuds & great sound

How does it work?

Auxiliary Port

Have you noticed an “aux port” on old equipment?

Or, “line in”…that works too!

Must-buy cable!

Best $8 you’ll ever spend…

New Best Friends!

$20 Sansa MP3 tethered to an old boom box

Power up that lounging Garage Animal

$10 from Radio Shack

1/8” Stereo/Audio Red-White Cable

$49 Sansa Clip (8GB) powering 70’s Stereo

Holds 4,000 Songs

Sansa Clip Connected to Home Theater System. Surround Sound!

Another Trick for Using MP3’s in Your Home

Same cable as the 70’s stereo cable!

1/8” Stereo/Audio Red-White Cable

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A New Portable Social AnimalSame cable idea for all sorts of MP3’s

Altec Lansing iM600

Host a BringYour Own Music Event

• Home• Lake• Library• School• Any teen

events

Power Up the Old or the New! Make Music Social

Again…

Free people from their ear buds!

Make listening social,

Don’t be too quick to discard the old,

Reuse what you already have…

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