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Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

Trackback — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:13:34 EDT

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.

Trackback

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

RebootEDC — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:07:06 EDT

Home taping is killing the music!

RebootEDC

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

Kos — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:05:09 EDT

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

Kos

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

doggo — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:37:13 EDT

@Galley: ""who still owns a cassette player these days?"

Anyone who wants to: [www.plusdeck.com]

doggo

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

infmom — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:41:47 EDT

I love this. I think I will buy some for my kids for Christmas. They're old enough to remember cassettes. :)

infmom

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

Trackback — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:12:23 EDT

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?

Trackback

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

FizzyPopMan — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:39:52 EDT

Whats that brand name on the cassette?
Hitchi? - Hmmm not too sure Hitachi will be happy about that!

FizzyPopMan

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

TheCapt — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:32:11 EDT

@Galley: "who still owns a cassette player these days?"
Yeah, they are so old... (hides his 8-track and 78rpm LP's)

TheCapt

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

Galley — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:36:32 EDT

A cassette adapter would be cool, but honestly who still owns a cassette player these days?

Galley

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

Breliant — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:19:43 EDT

@UltraCore: Would it have been the Rome mp3 player?
[techreport.com]

Breliant

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

UltraCore — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:04:15 EDT

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

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

x23 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:03:47 EDT

@anrcox:

Oh, and you missed some shit on your chin.

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.

x23

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

anrcox — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:28:07 EDT

@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

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

AdmNaismith — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:58:36 EDT

'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'.

AdmNaismith

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

immumo — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:35:25 EDT

Imagine if the company was based in the US... It would be called Suck US!

immumo

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

klew — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:33:31 EDT

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.

klew

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

x23 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:14:11 EDT

@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.

x23

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

anrcox — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:08:34 EDT

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

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

anrcox — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:06:51 EDT

@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...

anrcox

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

subroc — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:00:04 EDT

I'd hit it.

subroc

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

sgodun — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:54:29 EDT

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.

sgodun

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

ideaman2020 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:36:43 EDT

"Suck UK" is the same company that came up with the cardboard boombox.

They seem to have a thing for cardboard + cassettes.

ideaman2020

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

esoterica — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:13:17 EDT

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

esoterica

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

charman — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:38:14 EDT

I want one of these so bad.

charman

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

SchruteBuck — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:35:15 EDT

You know you're old when your mix tape has DRM

SchruteBuck

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

TuxRug — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:23:59 EDT

The manufacturer is "Suck UK". Does that tell you anything about the quality of this product?

TuxRug

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

ferris209 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:43:06 EDT

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!!!

ferris209

Mix Tape USB, Makes Us Happy, Reminds Us We Are Old

skeeve — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:37:30 EDT

LMAO, ok this is really simple, but really cool.

skeeve