The cassette player finally goes Bluetooth
This month marks the 40th anniversary of Sony's first Walkman, the portable music player that would forever change the way we consume music. And while the audio cassette long ago fell out of favor for the CD and later digital music, the format's certainly not forgotten. It may not have the same audiophile cache as the vinyl LP, but a a small and passionate contingent of music listeners are keeping the fire burning.
NINM Lab's latest project occupies that same sort of fuzzy technological limbo as past products like the I'm Fine single use camera. It's also got a name to match: It's OK. In this age of political unrest and global disasters, maybe that's exactly the message we need right now. As for a bluetooth cassette player, it's probably true that nobody needs such a thing, hyper specific products are one of the nice byproducts of late capitalism.
A Bluetooth 5.0 cassette player? Aight.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday July 05 2019, @09:02AM (3 children)
If this is the beginning of the end of the retro-vinyl obsession then I'm all for it.
Now's the time to start trawling the charity shops for old cassettes. Reckon I could pick them up for pennies, but in a year I'll be selling them to idiot hipsters for £20 each. Maybe VHS will also make a comeback.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by epitaxial on Friday July 05 2019, @02:18PM
Nobody buys old cassettes. All the new vaporwave releases are on cassette. Vinyl was always around, it never went away. I bought Ten from Pearl Jam on vinyl when it was brand new.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday July 05 2019, @04:06PM
8 track ALLLLL the way, baby!
Actually, I should maybe start hunting for the old wax cylinders in case they bring back the old phonographs.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by jshmlr on Friday July 05 2019, @05:50PM
VHS Collecting never left, there are quite a few obscure horror movies that got a VHS release, but never a DVD one. There's also a group that pick VHS up at yard sales and thrift shops in the hopes of scoring a lost gem that was recorded at home. Especially the old commercials.
Need nothing, then see what happens.