Japan's Scitec takes you back to the good ol' days when radio was the dominant mass communication medium with its TCU-311D retro-styled radio. Beyond simply letting you tune into the your favorite radio programs on the AM or FM dial, you can load up all those boy band CDs and LPs you've collected over the years. Better still, you can record any of the content onto memory cards of up to 1GB in size. So it's an old-looking radio that also doubles as an MP3 recording device. You'll be able to get your old timey hands on it (in Nippon) this November for around $165.

The radio certainly looks nice and if you're a big fan days-of-yore styling, strap on your hula hoop and get to it. – Nicholas Deleon

Product Page (in Japanese) [Scitec via Fareastgizmos.com]

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