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Design
Cassette Tape Lamps Illuminate As MP3s Never Will
7:00AM Mark Wilson | It’s true, you’ll only capture the effect of this picture if you buy many cassette tape lamps. The purchase of just one (in a motif not dissimilar from the consumption of one Lay’s potato chip) will lead to inevitable disappointment. More »
Music
Cheap Trick Releases Newest Album On 8-Track Cassette
12:00AM Dan Nosowitz | How’s this for lucky timing! In the midst of our Gizmodo ‘79 theme week, legendary power-pop act Cheap Trick is releasing their latest album (coincidentally entitled The Latest) on a very late-’70s medium: 8-track cassette. More »
Music
10:40AM Wilson Rothman | How much do you know about the most celebrated personal stereo of all time, one that is today turning the big Three Oh? A lot? OK, hell, let’s see what you got: More »
Take The Walkman 30th Birthday Quiz
10:40AM Wilson Rothman | How much do you know about the most celebrated personal stereo of all time, one that is today turning the big Three Oh? A lot? OK, hell, let’s see what you got: More »
Music
Great Sony Walkman TV And Print Ads Of The 1980s
11:00PM Wilson Rothman
To commemorate the Sony Walkman’s 30th birthday, here are the trippy ads Sony used to promote it in the ’80s. Noble monkeys, off-key kids and sweet-toothed senseis—where’s that f’d up sense of humour now, Sony? More »
