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 SomeGuy on Friday July 05 2019, @12:49PM
It just goes to show that any device can be profitable as long as it includes spying, telemetry, usage metrics, and some way to play advertising.
That said, are they actually manufacturing these new or just retrofitting some old stock? Typically once manufacture stops on something, all manufacturing equipment is intentionally destroyed, requiring impractical investments in re-engineering if one wanted to get things going again. I've read that this is the case for floppy drives/disks.