acidrain69's Journal: A modest proposal

I had an idea for a product that might make the world a better place. A sort of big-brother for the masses to get back at corporate irresponsibility and government blindness/deaf/stupidness. Someone needs to make a low cost, small, energy efficient MP3 voice recorder. I think the whistle blower population would explode if you could have a very small & concealable recorder that could hold maybe 12 hours worth of compressed audio. MP3/OGG compresses voice pretty well at low bitrates, so the storage isn't much of a problem. Everything could be solid state, so battery power should be reasonable. We jsut need it all in a small package, with a decent mic and an encoder/decoder (for review purposes).

Big brother is already with us. The low cost aspect of this is more for a way for the average citizen to fight back. Cop harrassment? Record them. Employer lied to you? Record them. Corporation screwing people over? Record them and post it on the net. I thank Jello Biafra's "Become the Media" for the inspiration.

thoughts?