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Rewind Your Headphone Cord With a Microcassette Tape

fred_rew_cord_caddy

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…

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July 14th, 2009 by: Technabob

Stick Those Devices Into a Tape-Dispensing USB Hub

tape dispenser usb hub

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

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March 26th, 2009 by: Alisha K.

Relive the Big and Chunky Days of Gadgets With Fauxsure Shirts

screenprinted_controllers

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…

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February 13th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

Use Calendar Tape to Make Dates Stick

Sticky Tape Calendar from Suck UK

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…

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December 13th, 2008 by: Lambert Varias

Cassette Tape USB Hub Won’T Play, Pause or Rewind

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…

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September 1st, 2008 by: Technabob

Cassette Tape Lamps Look Great, Sound Awful

Cassette Tape Lamp by Transparent House

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?…

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June 26th, 2008 by: Technabob

Betamax to HD-DVD Converter is Already Obsolete

BetaMax to HD-DVD Converter from ThinkGeek

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)…

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April 8th, 2008 by: Technabob

Message Tape Mimics Digital Displays

Message Tape from Suck UK

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…

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January 19th, 2008 by: Technabob

Cassette Tape Mp3 Player: Why Didn’t I Think of That?

MP3 Cassette Tape

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…

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August 24th, 2007 by: Technabob

The Mix Tape Goes USB

Mix Tape USB By Suck UK

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 …

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August 12th, 2007 by: Technabob

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