Posts Tagged ‘cassette’

Floopy Drive Music

Floopy Drive Music

CircuitGirl wins the hearts of music geeks everywhere by hacking an old cassette deck and floppy drive to make a weird little audio recorder that produces an interesting reverb sound… then she scratches it ftw.


Finger Power Works Cassette MP3 Player

Finger Power Works Cassette MP3 Player

No matter how much we progress as far as technology is concerned, we always look back towards retro stalwarts for inspiration in the designing field. NVDRS Tape foxes around in the Cassette Tape construction but is actually a digital player. Deceptive looks aside, the player continues to follow the 45/60/90 minutes norm, holding 10/15/20 select [...]


MixTapes Mean “I Love You”

Remember back in the day before email and ichat, before MySpace and Facebook, even before texting and twitter were all acceptable ways of communicating? Even before “143″ on your pager made your day?

When puppy love was in full force, you had two ways of conveying your emotions: you either stuffed a letter into her locker, or you made her a mix tape. The mix tape was a big step in the relationship. It was where you put your personality and character on the line, where you hoped to find some common ground with the future mother of your children, where you left Bryan Adams to do the dirty work of words, and then swept in to hijack the romance he had created.

Well the mix tape has become an endangered pastime…