Japan’s Matsushita Corporation announced today that they will be releasing the “SJ-MJ59” MiniDisc player under the Panasonic brand come October 1st. Since you can’t just go and release a normal product these days (and expect to make a profit), this time’s cheesy “MD players are going out of style in our own country, we need to get people’s mind off the iPod” gimmick is light-up speakers on the cradle.
Not stopping at speakers that light up, though, because god knows that’s been done before, Matsushita went and developed the world’s first transparent light up speakers. Basically, they just took out the oscillation board of the speaker and put some air in airtight (“airtyte”) casing, and named it the “AIR DRIVE.”
Read – Press Release [Panasonic]
