cassette tape lamps look great, sound awful
June 26th, 2008 post a comment (4) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
The cassette tape is probably just a fuzzy memory for those of you who grew up with Compact Discs and MP3s. But for us born before the 1980s, we have to figure out what to do with all of those old tapes. Why not turn them into a lighting fixture?
That’s exactly what the guys over at Transparent House are doing with their cassettes. The designers make each lamp from dozens of individual cassette tapes, arranged into visually appealing patterns. Not only do they look cool as a sculptural piece, they cast dramatic shadows onto surrounding surfaces.
Each lamp uses a bright, cool-burning neon light source to keep the plastic cassettes from melting. Of course, they left each tape in its original transparent case so they could be together glued neatly.
And if you have a fond place in your heart for the old micro-cassette, you don’t have to feel left out. They’ve got a lamp just for you, made from 140 of the mini tapes.
Now the guys over at Transparent House don’t say if they’ll be producing these en masse, or if they’re just one-of-a-kind design pieces. Personally, I’d love a couple of these in my media room.
[via geeksugar]
June 26th, 2008 post a comment (4) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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4 comments post a comment
1. Ken | June 26th, 2008 at 9:13 am
It’s quite nice looking. especialy the shadow of the light. I also have a lot of them before. But I threw it away and donate some of them. Now, I can’t find any cassette on my mediabox anymore since switching to iPod.
2. Josh | June 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Cassettes did sound pretty bad, but somehow every cassette Walkman I ever had sounded better than any iPod I’ve listened to. Probably a combination of low bit-rate mp3’s and the cheap audio components i the iPod.
3. SuperDave | June 29th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I saw this link and ran out to the shed for the gross of 90 minute transparent 90 minute TDK’s I had and they were gone.
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Great link, thanks technabob
4. ave13 | July 5th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Really great stuff! Would love such a lamp
But not made from my Madonna cassettes 
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