Other Uses for MySmart Pads? 20
TVgeek asks: "Has anyone out there hacked apart one of those MySmart pads? Out of the box, it's nothing more than hardware spyware (spyhardware? hardspyware?) but you can pick them up at Best Buy for like $4, and it does have an integrated smartcard reader/writer. If nothing else, there's a nice membrane switch in there, too..."
MySmart pads? (Score:1)
Re:MySmart pads? (Score:1, Informative)
Just my $0.02
Re:MySmart pads? (Score:1)
Out of the box, though, I'd say that it is the cliche AOLer's wet dream. :)
Re:MySmart pads? (Score:1)
A link to explain... (Score:2, Informative)
Where There's A Web, There's A Way [faulknergray.com]
Re:related question (Score:2)
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What? (Score:1)
Re:What? (Score:2, Informative)
(moderators; If you're going to mod me down as 'redundent' please at least wait until the original mention of this url has been modded up a bit :)
Measure of linux's success (Score:1)
Why, you can... (Score:3, Funny)
Nevermind.
Echo, Echo... (Score:2, Informative)
You may want to see what people thought about this same subject back on August 4 when MySmart was first posted. Any Alternative Uses For The MySmart Pad? [slashdot.org] posted by timothy on Sat August 04, 08:11 AM. DRACO-
linux-hacker.net forums (Score:2, Informative)
Here it is (Score:2, Informative)
An ISP in the UK uses these. (Score:1)
BTW, I was just at Best Buy and they didn't have any of the mysmart pads. I might try CompUSA later because they supposedly have them too.
Previous slashdot article. (Score:2, Informative)
MUD client (Score:2)
Technical Info and schematics for MySmartPad (Score:2, Informative)
From what I can tell, it was probably designed by MOTO [moto.com] based on their Cypress CY7C63413-PC reference design. You can find detailed information (and schematics) in the MO1001 PDF Document [moto.com] at their web page.
Used for its intended purpose, it's a total joke and destined for the Clearance bin. It's an aweful mousepad, and the card doesn't add anything over what any user already has.
As a USB ISO-7816 card reader with some buttons, it's more interesting, but I wasn't able to figure out how to talk to the card directly. In theory, it should be able to communicate with GSM SIM cards (with an adapter), Satellite TV cards, some student id cards, etc.
Maybe the Flying Butt Monkeys [flyingbuttmonkeys.com] are tired of