Wired.com have an interesting story about the hacking of Creative Technology’s MuVo2 MP3 player. Apparently the MuVo2 contains a 4Gb Hitachi MicroDrive, which normally retails for around $500. The MuVo2 only costs $200 (how much markup are Hitachi making on the stand-alone drive?!) so photographers have been buying the MuVo2 and removing the MicroDrive to use in their digital cameras. Not surprisingly the MuVo2 is said to be in short supply at the moment…

“The Hitachi microdrive is the same size as a standard CompactFlash, or CF, card, a popular storage medium for digital cameras. In fact, the drive is designed to be interchangeable with CF cards. The drive can simply be inserted into the camera and formatted to store pictures. The drive can also be read with most CF card readers.”

If you’re interested in this hack then andymack.com has a step-by-step guide…

Thanks to Stephen Anstey for sending me the links :-)

UPDATED 08/03/04: Photo.net have also added a step-by-step guide to dismantling the MuVo 2.

Website: Wired.com - “Cannibals Descend on MP3 Players”

Website: andymack.com

Website: Photo.net