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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.
(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.