Juice Box

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The Juice Box is a low cost Mattel multimedia player with a small screen (2.7" / 240x160px). It was marketed as a portable media player for kids. The player only played a proprietary cartridge format. Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network put some of their shows on cartridges. However, the small screen and poor quality (6 frames/second max) alienated most people. Furthermore, the device entered a crowded market. Its most potent rival was the Game Boy Advance, which not only had TV shows, but could also play video games. Thus many retail stores were left with a surplus of the device. Original retail price was about 70 dollars, but stores soon sold them at about $2 apiece.

It runs uClinux under the hood. Often it is hacked into a digital photo frame.

See homemade hacks for examples of such hacks. Or you can go to http://www.elinux.org/wiki/JuiceBox for more hacks.