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 DutchUncle on Friday July 05 2019, @02:17PM
We had that Norelco Carry-Corder. It was so much more convenient than any tape unit we had before (all reel-to-reel). The Walkman's radical change was shrinking the unit into a vertical brick with footprint barely bigger than the compact cassette itself, rather than stretched out, and it partly did this by eliminating the speaker and relying on headphones.