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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: 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.