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more about #records GlenTen: Attention Gizmodo editors: Someone has traveled back in time and edited several comments in this thread. Its a shame they didnt go back in Octob... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: I've got a MEGAPHONE pointed in your face! This is awesome. more » The Lab: @dukeaw - Yup, right on. That house only, like, six or seven bathrooms. Not even a moat or guard station! more » GlenTen: Great stuff. This reminds me of Michael Moore's TV Nation skit where he did this to various CEOs. He visited a garbage truck CEO with a giant ... more » SigmundTheSeaMonster: I hope it was after 10am, because, you know, them capitalist-captains of industry have the secret police, um, cops in their pockets. Perhaps showing u... more » Noobs-R-Us: What a way to kick "the man" right in the balls! "The man" loves to hide in the shadows and operate behind closed doors. Let's shine a very bright lig... more » player_of_games: Why so much concern about your addresses being public? If all the Sarah Connors' addresses hadn't been in a phonebook, Sarah wouldn't have realized so... more » TheSonOfKrypton: Wow. Can we PLEASE turn this into a nationally aired commercial RIGHT NOW! This was hilarious and very effective, illustrating the problems the big ... more » locomodo: That Ampeg will need a lot of AC juice to make some serious sound, and that Civic's electrical system won't cut it. more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: How hard is it to find Dan Hesse? Just search Google Street view for a house in black and white. As for Ivan, is he sure that was Monty Burns's hous... more » North Star: Funny and very effective. This makes my day. more » pastrychef: Awesome! Good job, Mr. Hargrave! more » TheMurderer: I wonder what kind of copycat annoyances this could create? more » 92BuickLeSabre: As noted in an earlier post, I still love my old Sony Quadraphonic system, but it only has the turntable, radio, and audio inputs...no 8 track. And (... more » goochillini: Love this review of the 8-Track GE Receiver. My dad still has his hooked up in his garage, with a working 8-Track player. On the downside he only has ... more » OMG! Ponies!: Sound does not come from literally every direction. As everyone knows, sound only comes from speakers. Marketing brochure FAIL! more » VivianaEmu: Unless I'm mistaken, Quadrophenia was actually never recorded in quadrophonic sound. Hence, why your dad's copy was in stereo. more » Matt Heimlich: I'll take 2. One for me, and another one also for me for when I inevitably crash the first. more » frigg: Huh? No SP-1200?!? Pffffft. more » manyou07: why would they have the record if their total is split between two people?? more » -
#privacy
Prankster Gets Verizon's CEO Private Address, Visits Him to Discuss Privacy
John Hargrave tracked down Verizon CEO's private address and cellphone number. Then he went to his home—megaphone in hand—to ask him to stop Verizon's lousy privacy policies. The video is quite funny and his message is clear: More » -
#homeaudio
Lightning Review: Panasonic Quadraphonic Turntable and GE 8-Track Receiver
The Gadgets: Panasonic's SL-850 quadraphonic turntable, featuring the unusual 4.0 discrete-channel format for stereo-besting sound. (As the brochure says, "In the real world, sound comes from literally every direction.") Plus, GE's 4-Channel Receiver, with a built-in 8-track cassette player. More » -
#jetpacks
Crazy Jumpsuited Man Sets New Speed Record for Jetpacks
Like some kind of cross between NASCAR and Evel Knievel, Eric Scott of Jet Pack International recently set a new speed record for jetpacks: A surprisingly-fast 61 MPH. 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] -
#textmessaging
Two Men Attempting to Set a Text Messaging Record Get $26K Phone Bill for 217K Texts
Move over teenage girls: two friends from Philadelphia—both men—just received a bill for $26,000 after sending 217,000 texts to each other in the month of March alone. More » -
#listeningtest
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we've been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we've done it to date: 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 » -
#turntables
Audiowood Turntables: Because Technics Are Too Cold and Modern
The contrast between machines and nature is always fascinating to look at, and such is the case with Audiowood's line of turntables, which bring a very woody aesthetic to the wheels of steel. More » -
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#art
Sound Wave: The Vinyl Strikes Back
Did you think that records would stand idly by while MP3s took over the music industry? Sure, they turned a blind eye to 8-track and cassettes. Then CDs got a pass, too. But those were physical mediums, brothers-from-another-mothers. And if compact discs don't have the cojones to stand up to the digital music revolution, vinyl will just have to come back from the dead and start kicking some 1s and 0s butt. More » -
#biggestandbaddest
10 Record-Breaking Consumer Gadgets
From the world's tallest skyscraper to the world's highest popping toaster, it seems like a day rarely goes by without news of some sort of record being broken. As far as consumer gadgets are concerned, everyone claims to have the biggest, smallest or the fastest product on the market—but just because it's in the press release doesn't make it true. No so with the following 10 gadgets—these are sure-fire record breakers. Although, in some cases, you will require record amounts of cash to get your hands on one. More » -
#physicalmedia
World's Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million
If you're looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney's record collection. At over 3 million records, it's the largest in the world. He's trying to sell it due to his advancing age and health problems. Unfortunately, as he puts it, "no one gives a damn." More »
