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posted by martyb on Friday July 05 2019, @08:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the next-up-will-be-a-Bluetooth-8-Track-player dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 05 2019, @09:55AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 05 2019, @09:55AM (#863427) Journal

    A little more idle searching, and I found another video worth looking at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns3rPNABdew [youtube.com] In 1958 RCA Victor was offering a consumer quality cassette player. Note how freaking HUGE that cassette is.

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