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more about #cassettes Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!: I heard about this from Marvel Entertainment's "Agent M". Still, I cannot help but wonder what happens when you put one of these through the dry clea... more » Noobs-R-Us: Adam, if you like it so much I can send you one of my tape and you can make your own. I guess you don't own any tapes? more » Hello Mister Walrus: With the added size of that case, someone should try to build in some added functionality, like a battery pack. more » Gann: It would be awesome if this doubled as a tapedeck converter. Not that I have a tapedeck in my truck. No, of course not. more » spikespeigel: Darn! My car doesn't have a tape deck. more » infmom: I just looked at the top 100 songs for 1979... ew! Put it back ten years and you'd have good music to choose from. :) more » robotpain: My Comb Is In My Back Pocket Mix - 1979 Side 1: "My Sharona" by The Knack "Heart Of Glass" by Blondie "Walking On The Moon" by The Police "Video Kill... more » strider_mt2k: Steely Dan, Yes, Beatles, Led Zep, The Who, The Ramones, Dire Straits, and more! (it was a 120 minute tape) more » Curves: On every mix tape (recorded from your "record player" or radio) in 1979 were: Led Zepplin, Peter Frampton and the theme from Saturday Night Live. more » Segador: Disclaimer: Not all these came out in '79, but all were before that, and all rock. 1. La Grange, ZZ Top. 2. Comfortably Numb, of course. 3. The Need... more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Is there a Giz readers age poll? I'd be interested to know what percentage of readers are actually over 30 and were around in '79. more » nat lyon: wire- outdoor miner, clash- janie jones, the damned- neat, neat, neat, most of talking heads '77, roxy music- every dream home a heart ache, pere ubu-... more » LeroyHope: See Me, Feel Me - The Who Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac Freebird- Lynyrd Skynyrd more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: In honor of our own OMG!Toesis to the Nosies/Ponies! Leonard Nimoy's Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. Also Leonard Nimoy's version of SuperTramp more » OMG! Ponies!: I'm not listening to a 1979 mixtape. I'm listening to the audiotape of "The Hobbit" "Who are these MISERABLE PEOPLES!" said the great goblin... more » SirDrinksalot: All AWB Mix tape! more » notsofresh: What was that thing that used to happen-- when you'd just let a cassette run on auto-reverse over and over and the tape would get so tightly wound on ... more » reddingofish: I rarely bought music on a cassette. I always bought the record and put it on cassette while I was playing it for the first time. Then I would liste... more » Bigbadbikernerd: My first vehicle had a Pioneer-Craig 8 track in it. I even got the cassette adapter for it so I could listen to the new fangled cassettes. Talk abou... more » OMG! Ponies!: I still use (micro) cassette tapes on a daily basis. When you need to do dictation, it's a proven technology. more » -
#clothing
Sonic Fabric Neckties Are Actually Playable
The music may be horrible, but if you rub a tape head over these ties you can actually hear jumbled sound collages recorded from the NYC metro system. This is possible because the ties are 50% audio cassette tape. More » -
#cassettetape
The 80s Now Have One More Cassette Tape Measure To Be Proud Of
Only Gama-Go would be able to take a Cassette Tape and make it into a pun-based product that's both useful and compact. Plus, it's only $8. [Gama-Go] -
#ipodnano
Cassette Nano Case Is Absolutely Wonderful
These 45 Nano Cases are made from gutted cassette tapes and fit 4th gen iPod nanos. They're pretty much perfect; I want an iPod Nano just so I can get one of these. So awesome. [Contexture via HolyCool via TDW] -
#mixtapes
Gizmodo '79 Mixtape: What's On Yours?
I'm listening to "Boys Don't Cry," released by The Cure in June 1979. Next is "Comfortably Numb." Before playlists, we had mixtapes, thanks to the Walkman. What's on your 1979 mixtape? Remember, you've got 45 minutes per side. More » -
#personalaudio
The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler
Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, and I got mine a year later. The Walkman boosted the profile of audio cassettes, which had been challenging LPs and 8-Tracks as a music medium. They soon dominated the music scene. More » -
#decorating
Retro Wallpaper Celebrates the Golden Age of Hip Hop
Turntables, keyboards, cassettes and boomboxes? Yes please. This designer wallpaper by Aimée Wilder costs $140 for a diminutive 27" x 15' roll. Then again, that's enough probably paper to make your point. [aimeewilder via Unplggd] -
#robots
TapeScape 'Bot Turns Old Boombox Into Glitch Music Automaton
Using little else than the parts inside an old GE boombox, Michael Colombo made TapeScape, a robot that front-mounts the jambox's tape head and uses it to follow strips of cassette tapes on the ground. More » -
#listeningtest
Handmade Playlist: The Greatest Mixtape I Ever Made
In 1994, I painstakingly crafted the greatest hip-hop mixtape cassette I would ever make, comprised solely of songs on the radio at the time. I was 9. More » -
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#listeningtest
My First Album
Who the hell is Richard Marx? Being another baby of Gizmodo, I'm sure I've still got a lot to learn about music, especially since I'm one of those kids who's completely brainwashed by The Mouse. More » -
#listeningtest
Cool Album Art and Packaging: Records, Cassettes, CDs Then Nothing
CDs originally came in long boxes with amazing art. Word went around that they'd go away, since hippies—like Sting—were pissed off about killing trees, but I was sad. Music packaging says a lot about music. More » -
#listeningtest
My First Album
Unlike Mark's first album, my first album unfortunately contained no ninjas. Unless Richard Marx was a ninja. More » -
#gallery
I'm All Wound Up: A Gallery of Classic Magnetic Tape Drives and Reels
SSD, Smesh Smesh Dee. Here's my visual tribute to magnetic tape, the storage medium that can be measured in MBytes, minutes and meters. More » -
#art
Strange, Archaic Audio Storage Device Used to Create Impressive Musician Artwork
Called "Ghost in the Machine," this artwork from iri5 uses some kind of "cassette" to recreate the likenesses of popular musicians. Apparently, cassettes were used for music and seduction, by way of a "mix tape." More »
