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Hate all that excess cord you end up with when you wear your headphones? This fun little accessory lets you hide that spare cord with wit and whimsy.
Designed by Jason Amendolara for Fred & Friends, the »REW cord caddy looks like an old-school cassette tape (or more like a microcassette, IMHO), and lets you…
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July 14th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun media players
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It’s the perfect companion to the sticky notes flash drive: the tape dispenser USB hub, for the person who needs to affix a lot of things to other things. How have you lived this long without it?
I may laugh now, but the next time I need to tape something down while simultaneously looking for a…
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March 26th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: strange + wonderful technology
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Remember when controllers had corners and not curves? When speakers were bigger than a house? When storage was limited but personal? and rectangular? Remember when synths… Nevermind. Synthesizers still look the same. Oh wait. Remember when synths had no USB connection? Because there was no USB in the 80s?
If you can remember those days…
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February 13th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio geek art + craft just plain fun retro video games
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SUCK UK Calendar Tape by Laboratorium is a cheap and practical way of keeping your schedule together. Use it as a Twitterish diary, an organizer, or yes, a calendar.
You can also mark your video games, CDs, DVDs and gadgets with it, so you know when you bought them or when they’re due for maintenance,…
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December 13th, 2008
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design just plain fun
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I can’t think of any better way to connect my mix tape USB flash drive to my computer than to plug it into this retro cassette tape USB hub.
The 4-port USB 2.0 hub may look exactly like an old school cassette tape, but I can pretty much assure you that you’ll wreck your tape…
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September 1st, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: audio gadgets just plain fun retro
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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…
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June 26th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design retro
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ThinkGeek recently announced their latest electronic gadget, a device that can easily convert your old Betamax Tapes to brand-spankin’-new HD-DVD discs.
While it won’t handle transfers of DIVX, MiniDisc or SelectaVision Videodiscs, the BetaMaxHD will convert between two of the most undoubtedly out-of-fashion consumer media formats money can (or can’t) buy.
I’m not sure how…
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April 8th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets just plain fun video
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This cool decorative tape lets you leave messages by blacking out the the white areas. A brilliantly simple design concept, the tape works in pretty much any language thanks to its free-form display concept.
Perfect for labeling boxes, temporary signage, creating impromptu artworks or modern graffiti, the tape comes in either a dot-matrix or segmented…
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January 19th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design just plain fun
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Plenty of companies have made cassette tape adapters for connecting MP3 players to your car stereo, but this one wins the award for ingenuity. Not only does this gadget let you play your digital tracks through your old school tape player, the cassette IS the MP3 player.
Chinavasion’s MP3 Cassette Player is a completely self-contained…
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August 24th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets media players
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For those of us who were born in the pre-MP3 era, the idea of creating a custom mix of your favorite tunes and putting them on a cassette tape was one of the most romantic things that you could do for your significant other (unless you happened to include “That’s What Friends Are For” or “The…
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August 12th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun retro
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While I don’t really know if these qualify as “gadgets,” I just had to show you these awesome tape dispensers coming from UK designers at j-me.
A clever visual pun manifested in 3-dimensions, they dispense Scotch tape instead of playing the magnetic type. Available for pre-order now, these dispensers should be shipping this September for…
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July 14th, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: design gadgets