The iPod photo – A Portable Cartoon Viewer?

Thanks to my son, Perceval, for suggesting this. I don’t have either of the two items necessary to do this (yet), but this sounds like a great idea.

Why not use the iPod photo to view cartoons, especially those from the New Yorker? I recently wrote about The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, which is a wonderful book containing some 2,000 cartoons from the New Yorker, but also with more than 68,000 cartoons – every one ever published in the magazine – on two CD-Roms.

So, Perceval’s idea is this: why not view the New Yorker cartoons on the iPod photo? Great idea, if you ask me; much better than vacation pictures. The question is, however, can it be done? Are the graphics of the cartoons good enough to view on such a small screen? Are the captions readable?

I’d love to hear from anyone who has both the New Yorker cartoon book and an iPod photo to know if this is feasible…

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Posted: 11/17/2004 by kirk | Filed under: iPod & iTunes | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “The iPod photo – A Portable Cartoon Viewer?”

  1. Margaret says:
    11/17/2004 at 1:53 am

    I don’t have an iPod photo. I do have the New Yorker book, however, and the accompanying CDs. For some of the cartoons (especially older ones), I found that the resolution wasn’t high enough on the screen of my 12″ iBook– I have no doubt that those cartoons would be completely illegible on an iPod.

    I do think, however, that it could be really cool if someone took advantage of the size and resolution of the iPod photo screen and created cartoons that looked good on it. What about a graphic novel that one could read on an iPod photo? Someone should explore that…

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    • Anonymous says:
      11/17/2004 at 4:27 pm

      Then this graphic content could be syndicated via RSS and synched with the iPod. Hmmm… daily cartoons on the go, along with an early morning podcast – that would be interesting.

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  2. Perceval says:
    11/17/2004 at 10:23 pm

    Really, I think tihs could be a great idea!! (in fact, it’s my idea!!)
    But if it’s not doable… I’ll see when I have MY OWN iPod photo!!
    P.S. : I’m still your son!!

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  3. Anonymous says:
    11/18/2004 at 3:28 pm

    Hi all,

    interesting to see you talk about this. Currently I’m developing what you’re talking about (I had the idea 3 months back…a little future thinking ;-)

    Would like to hear your ideas about it so e-mail me if you have some spare time.

    You’ll here of it soon.

    regards,
    Roy Sintenie
    r.sintenie@freespotz.com

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