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I guess they had a burn-on-demand rental service in Japanese convenience stores, that’d be about the only way I’d watch UMD movies.

You didn’t get hours of entertainment out of that? Not even with the Smurfs game!?

Microvision ShowWX+ pico projector. They’d been advertising their laser-based VR tech for almost a decade but still had zero products on the market, so when they advertised a portable, battery-powered 640x480 laser projector with adapters for cell phones (this was 2010 so fairly unusual) I ordered one. I hoped I’d get something fun for travel/work use, and maybe help kickstart Microvision finally selling what was supposed to be a revolutionary VR display. Supposedly it required no focusing and would produce a bright image from 1’ to 6’ wide.

It was $400, arrived months late, didn’t work out of the box, and even when I finally had everything updated, it was so dim you could only see it in a pitch-black room or when the projector was inches from a reflective surface. To top it all off, the “low power, highly efficient” laser module constantly overheated.

Just a complete disaster. I think in the following 16 years they’ve sold maybe a dozen monochrome HMDs to the Air Force… for analyzing skin cracks in grounded planes.

“No one”? 'm a little hurt… :)

Granted, I mainly heard the John Denver cover so that’s what I listed.

The fact that he’s driving that train comes up a lot.

I’ve got 16 songs about / relating to trains, but no idea how to export playlists from Poweramp:

• The Kleptones/24 Hours (Disc 1)/04 0835 Kick The Bus, Kick The Train.mp3.mp3
• 青春歌年鑑 90年代総集編 [Disc 1]/1-05 Choo Choo TRAIN.m4a
• Gorillaz/G Sides/07 Ghost Train.m4a
• Electric Light Orchestra/Strange Magic - The Best of Electric Light Orchestra/2-08 Last Train to London.m4a
• The Rolling Stone Women In Rock Collection [Disc 2]/2-02 Midnight Train To Georgia.mp3
• Back to the Future (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)/08 Night Train (feat. The Starlighte.m4a
• The Guess Who/The Guess Who_ Anthology/1-20 Pain Train.m4a
• Mama Africa/04 Stop That Train.m4a
• Bob Marley & The Wailers/The Complete Wailers 1967-1972 Part 1 [Disc 2]/2-11 This Train (Alternate).m4a
• Tom Waits/Big Time/12 Train Song [Live].m4a
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/01 Train to Lamy Suite (pts 1-3).mp3
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/11 Train to Lamy pt 3 (reprise).mp3
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/05 Train to Lamy pt 4.mp3
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/07 Train to Lamy pt 5.mp3
• 8bit Project/SPICY INNOVATOR VS SUPERIOR MARIONETTE/04 ただ…逢いたくて - Together - Choo Choo T.m4a
• Gordon Lightfoot/Sunday Concert/11 Canadian Railroad Trilogy.mp3

And then one that isn’t really about trains, but very good:

• The Clash/London Calling/19 Train In Vain.m4a

Honorable mentions (heard but don’t own):

• City of New Orleans / John Denver version
• Take the A Train / Duke Ellington w. Ella Fitzgerald
• Rock Island Line / Stan Freberg version