tapes
Design
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with these tapes. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant three-dimensional tapes. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. His other gadgets are even more impressive. More »
This Is Not A Photoshop Collage, It’s A Wood Carving
3:10AM Jesus Diaz | This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with these tapes. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant three-dimensional tapes. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. His other gadgets are even more impressive. More » 
Peripherals
Wear Your Heart On Your iPhone Mixtape Sleeve
4:40AM Mark Wilson | Remember when love was simple and relationships were cheap? Now, to give a girl a mixtape, you’ve gotta buy an iPhone, 2-year AT&T subscription and this $US30 case—plus like $US12.99 in Journey MP3s. [Agent 18 via ChipChick via CraziestGadgets]
Robots
Vintage 2-XL Robot Uses 8-Track Tapes, Not as Scary as Teddy Ruxpin
6:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Released in 1978, the 2-XL educational robot was before my time, but it wouldn’t have haunted my nightmares like Teddy Ruxpin did. At least this robot had the decency to look like a damn robot. More »
Music
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
5:20AM John Herrman | 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 »
Music
3:30PM Nick Broughall | As a gift for my fifth birthday, my cousin Kylie dubbed five cassettes which would influence my taste in music forever: Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet, Van Halen’s 5150, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, Icehouse’s Man of Colours and John Farnham’s Whispering Jack. But the first album I ever purchased with my own money is so embarrassing I actually contemplated lying to you all just to avoid admitting it – even to myself. That album was “In God We Trust” by Christian rock band Stryper. What’s worse is that I still have it. More »
My First Album
3:30PM Nick Broughall | As a gift for my fifth birthday, my cousin Kylie dubbed five cassettes which would influence my taste in music forever: Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet, Van Halen’s 5150, Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, Icehouse’s Man of Colours and John Farnham’s Whispering Jack. But the first album I ever purchased with my own money is so embarrassing I actually contemplated lying to you all just to avoid admitting it – even to myself. That album was “In God We Trust” by Christian rock band Stryper. What’s worse is that I still have it. More »
Gadgets
I’m All Wound Up: A Gallery of Classic Magnetic Tape Drives and Reels
3:27PM Adrian Covert | SSD, Smesh Smesh Dee. Here’s my visual tribute to magnetic tape, the storage medium that can be measured in MBytes, minutes and metres. More »
Design
Retro Cassette MP3 Player Runs on Finger Power
9:00AM Sean Fallon | Remember how annoying winding up a cassette with your finger used to be? I thought we were past all of that nonsense, but the designers behind the NVDRS MP3 cassette tape have other plans. More »
Gadgets
The Last Major VHS Retailer Abandons the Format
3:15AM Mark Wilson | While we know that media formats will come and go (be they physical or purely digital), the death of VHS is one of particular weight. Players have died, now tapes have, too. More »
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