Untangle & Listen Patricia Post, Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange (CMLE)

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Untangle & Listen Patricia Post, Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange (CMLE)

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Untangle & Listen

Patricia Post, Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange

(CMLE)

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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….

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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….

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Do you have any of these lying around?

Old Technologies

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

Garage Animal

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

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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?

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Auxiliary Port

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

Or, “line in”…that works too!

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Must-buy cable!

Best $8 you’ll ever spend…

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New Best Friends!

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$20 Sansa MP3 tethered to an old boom box

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Power up that lounging Garage Animal

$10 from Radio Shack

1/8” Stereo/Audio Red-White Cable

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

Holds 4,000 Songs

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Sansa Clip Connected to Home Theater System. Surround Sound!

Another Trick for Using MP3’s in Your Home

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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

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Host a BringYour Own Music Event

• Home• Lake• Library• School• Any teen

events

Power Up the Old or the New! Make Music Social

Again…

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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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