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Some days you wake up and you just do not want to go on. You miss the touch of plastic that audiocassettes used to fill your life with. Well, the Mix Tape USB, by Suck UK should go a little way to help. No pricing information is available yet, but we are sure it will be worth it; just think...
Not only can you revel in the retro casing, you can also whip out the USB stick from the cassette's innards and load that up with tunes for your baby-boo. How will they know what is on there? Plug and play? You are not old-school enough, man—there is a track-list record sheet included! I can just smell the good old days, I tell you. Oh no, that is the smell of not washing. To be fair, the two scents are fairly similar; my bad—I should go shower.
[Suck UK via Technabob].
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LMAO, ok this is really simple, but really cool.
Why didn't I think of this!?!?! But the coolest thing is you can make a mix tape in minutes with this thing with a few simple clicks of mouse. I remember that it used to take hours to make a mix tape at the house. Have the find the tapes you were pulling from, then record it just right, AWW shoot I just recorded over a the last 5 seconds of the fourth track!!!
The manufacturer is "Suck UK". Does that tell you anything about the quality of this product?
You know you're old when your mix tape has DRM
I want one of these so bad.
Would be much cooler if the tape were actually a tape adapter that you could pop in a cassette player, with a built-in MP3 player and a dock for the USB stick
"Suck UK" is the same company that came up with the cardboard boombox.
They seem to have a thing for cardboard + cassettes.
This concept would be infinitely cooler if the cassette was "real", and you could plug the memory stick into it and put the cassette into an actual cassette player and have the "cassette" translate the MP3s from the memory stick to the head on the tape, thus effectively playing your MP3s from a USB memory stick to a tape deck.
But no, it's a cardboard box.
I'd hit it.
@sgodun: Would not be too difficult either. There is already the cassette adapter, and we know how small the USB drive can be... just change the form factor. Good idea. Race you to the patent office...
On the other hand... one of the things I have had more fun with sense the mixtape had gone digital/CD is the album art. Larger area to work with.
It just may have gone small again. I love this idea.
@anrcox: it's been done. YEARS ago. as far as i know... no one bought them. i mean... i've certainly never seen one in the wild and you think the idea has never been done.
MobiBLU DAH-220 ... that one is from February 2005.
the only person you will be racing to the patent office is father time.
i suppose you could make a time machine and go back and then patent it... but at that point you would be better off just patenting your time machine vs. the cassette-shaped-MP3-player.
Does the track-list record sheet have hundreds of lines? If this is a 64MB stick, you should approach the same number of songs on a regular album.
Imagine if the company was based in the US... It would be called Suck US!
'But the coolest thing is you can make a mix tape in minutes...'
'Cause there is nothing that will impress your baby-boo more than a music mix you threw together in 'minutes'.
@x23: Very cool. Hadn't known about it. Still available in some places and bumped up to a gig.
Oh, and you missed some shit on your chin.
@anrcox:
i have no idea what this means.
maybe it is some obtuse regional aphorism that i am unaware of. or one of those things that sounds totally awesome in your head when you think it up... but then in real life it just looks confusing and nonsensical.
These have existed for years. I'll look up the brand, but a good friend of mine had a cassette-tape MP3 player that hooked up to her computer by USB, not much storage since it was hella years ago but you skip songs by having the tape briefly on "fast forward" or "rewind" and it was the coolest thing ever in our way-old cars.
@UltraCore: Would it have been the Rome mp3 player?
[techreport.com]
A cassette adapter would be cool, but honestly who still owns a cassette player these days?
@Galley: "who still owns a cassette player these days?"
Yeah, they are so old... (hides his 8-track and 78rpm LP's)
Whats that brand name on the cassette?
Hitchi? - Hmmm not too sure Hitachi will be happy about that!
I'm not a kid anymore, but I still love mix tapes. Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old - GizmodoDo you get all hot and sweaty before performance evaluations?
I love this. I think I will buy some for my kids for Christmas. They're old enough to remember cassettes. :)
@Galley: ""who still owns a cassette player these days?"
Anyone who wants to: [www.plusdeck.com]
this is an awesome gift idea for someone who you've only been dating for a short time and remembers the analog era. very highfidelity-esque
Home taping is killing the music!
Most of us remember making mix tapes for those special people that made us feel all weird inside. I never really made one for a boy, but I remember making them for friends who were too cheap to buy their own cassettes.
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