This is a television for ants. Yes, basically! One of the smallest and sweetest video players I have ever seen is the TinyTV 2. While it doesn't have a set of rabbit ears, the one-inch 216x135-pixel television is authentic in almost every other way.
There is a two-hour battery so you can take it with you wherever you go. The machine is powered by a computer. It emulates the experience of changing channels by remembering your timestamp in each of the video files you preload, so it can seem like you are on TV.
The company is offering a smaller version of the TinyTV, called the TinyTV Mini, which is just one square inch in size. A single hour of battery life is what it has, with a 0.6-inch screen at 64 x 64.
The field of crowd funding is chaotic. One in 10 successful products that reach their funding goals fail to deliver rewards, according to a study done by Kickstarter. There is often disappointment in store for those products that do get done because of delays, missed deadlines, and overpromised ideas.
Use your best judgement when defending. Do you know if the product looks legit? The company is making claims. There is a prototype that is being worked on. Is the company planning on manufacturing and shipping finished products? Is this the first time it has completed a crowd funding campaign? You don't necessarily buy a product when you back a project on a site.
Both of them come with an app that will shrink your favorite video files down to the right resolution.
You can see how much clearer the TinyTV 2 looks and sounds in the video shown by Norman Chan.
The Thumby seems to have gone well, shipping over 10,000 units and now freely on sale, so this could be an easier way to live the tiny TV dream. I funded it myself, and I think it will be a great place for music videos.
There are more pictures of the mini.
These Lego computer bricks with actual computers and screens within are a project that inspired Tiny Circuits to create Game Boy-for-ants.
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