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Here are the top ten Nerd Approved Gadgets for the week of July 13th-19th, 2009:
Baby Bottle Fan: A disaster waiting to happen.
The iMagnet: Turns your entire fridge into an iPod.
NFL Lawn Statues: These belong under a disco ball.
Spinning Dubz Air Freshener: Pimps your car with freshness.
Stone Cold Ice Tray: Easter Island heads provide icy goodness.
Fred’s upcoming REW cassette tape cord wrangler spools your dangling cords and wires—keeping them from tangling in your jean jacket and/or perm.
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You can call it retro or ironic, but the idea of using a cassette tape as a mixer for your MP3 sources is certainly different. Use the cross fader so that you can make a seamless transition from Carrie Underwood to KoRn. And that is no simple feat.
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Excellent little phone booth that has both a cassette player and AM/FM Radio. I think anything that can double as a decent decoration and actually be functional has possibilities.
While it may be an attractive cabinet when not in use, probably lousy sound when it does. You can mash together a couple odd things to make a unique product, but can they give it decent audio as well? I’ll eat my hat if it does. Of course, I still like it.
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If you liked the Retro Cassette Tote Bag, you’ll love these Ghetto Blaster and NYC Boom Box Bags. Besides looking cool, these bags are plenty big enough to carry everything you need – even if you’re planning a weekend trip.
The Getto Blaster Bag is pictured above, the Boom Box Bags are pictured after the break…
Product Page: Ghetto Blaster Bag ( £29.99 or $60 ) / NYC Boom Box Bag ( £19.99 or $40 )
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The folks over at World Wide Fred have done it again with their Cassette Tote Bag.
The Cassette design is printed on flexible plastic, and the handles are intended to look like unraveling tape. It is definitely an attention grabber, not to mention a unique way to carry around all of your crap.
Pricing information on the Cassette Tote Bag has not been made available.
Despite the fact that cassette tapes had nowhere near the fidelity that any digital recording has, BTO is now offering a product that will help you preserve that sub-par sound. The Plus Deck2 fits into a 5 1/4″ bay and lets you listen to or digitize your old collection.
I would likely find this device more useful if it wasn’t being sold for $200. At that price I could buy lot of digitally mastered singles. And since most albums have only a handful of songs I care about, I doubt I could find 60 or more tapes I am looking to preserve. But like everything else in this world, someone is probably looking for something like this and for every need someone will create a product.
And did I mention it features Auto Reverse? Been a long time since I was looking for a product that supported that.
Having written the article about the Apple 1 replica being available, it brought back memories of the first computer I ever actually had in my possession. Anyone else remember the Sinclair ZX81? While it was the beginning of my computer education having taught myself BASIC programming on it, I can clearly remember the difficulties I had with it.
Let’s recount what it was like working with this thing. First off it had a membrane keyboard that was incredibly slow to type on because of it’s mechanical nature. Then there was the 16kb memory expansion that plugged in the back and would come loose at times, causing you to lose everything. And while that may be a nuisance, without it you had 1k to work with. The only storage device you could use was a normal cassette tape player that almost never worked. It displayed monochrome only on a TV set and the display was extremely slow because the single processor handled all processing as well as video display. You could speed it up using the FAST command, but that just refreshed the screen slower, giving you video that flickered. On SLOW it displayed better but ran programs slower.
By todays standards, it was not a great computer. But at the time it was an amazing $100. It fascinated me and really led me down the path I continue on. So regardless of the shortcomings it possessed, it may have given many an experience that would not have been available otherwise. Check out an HTML version of the original BASIC manual that came with it. it must have been halfway decent for me to teach myself FOR-NEXT loops, variables and everything else that I use to this day.
Let’s see todays programmers try to not only write a program, but get it to fit into the 16k. That might be a good exercise for anyone.
Today Belkin announced the TuneBase, TunePower, and a whole mess of cases for the upcoming Zune player.
The TuneBase FM Transmitter ($79.99):
- Positions in either portrait or landscape mode (ideal for viewing video)
- Features a built-in FM transmitter that wirelessly connects to your car stereo, transmitting on FM channels 88.1 MHz – 107.9MHz
- Includes a 3.5mm audio line-out for use with cars with MP3 audio line-in or with cassette adapters
- Constructed with a flexible-steel neck that positions easily inside your car
- Three programmable memory presets
- Features an LCD display with backlight that displays FM frequency and memory selection
TunePower ($59.99):
- Extends the playtime of your Zune by up to 6 hours
- Fold-out kickstand allows for a perfect hands-free video viewing angle
- Saves money and the environment with rechargeable battery
- Custom-molded sleeves protect your Zune
- Includes AC power adapter
- Protective-case design prevents damage to the connector from dirt, dust, or impact
Beyond that, Belkin has released a series of cases that range from Acrylic hard cases to Armband models.
The whole lot will be available for purchase by the end of November.
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