Cody Frisbee sent in this image he did, called Vinyl Hunters. It is also available in t-shirt form.
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I write about a Polaroid funeral in OBSOLETE, but this is the first time I have encountered an iPod funeral. However, it looks like this one was staged for the picture, if only because the one thing that might have a shorter lifespan than an iPod is a cardboard headstone.
This photo is from a post that quotes Apple’s Steve Wozniak (aka the L train singing Santa) as saying that the iPod will “go the way of the transistor radio and Walkman, becoming a cheap and eventually boring commodity product.” In other words, in the era of the iPhone et al, what’s the point of a device that was built to satisfy just one of our senses? Please wake me when they make these things edible.
(via manoflamancha from colinxponzi)
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Martin Rundkvist of Aardvarchaelology:
- These are my obsolete portable music players. A post-1985 cassette player, a 2000 minidisc player and a 2002 iPod whose sole means of communication with the outside world is a firewire socket. In the 90s I didn’t listen much to music while on the move. Since 2006 I use a smartphone as my mp3 player.
(via Aardvarchaeology)
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Apparently, people are already feeling nostalgic for the click wheel on their “old” iPods. Oy. Fortunately, this app is coming to the rescue.
iClassic App Lets You Revist the Good Old Days of Click Wheel iPods
(via Gizmodo)
(via willzone)
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The perfect gift for the person who already has every other nostalgic mix tape accessory.
Buy This: Cassette sleeves for 4th generation iPod Nanos from Contexture Design.
Made from reclaimed cassette tapes. 24 colorways to choose from.
1051 The iPod of its day
This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the invention of the Sony Walkman. Happy birthday, friend! Sony publicists are milking this moment for all its worth. I imagine this is because they’re gambling that no one will remember the Walkman at all when its next big birthday rolls around. Good press is one way to move stock: The Sony SRF-59 Radio Walkman is currently the 183rd most popular electronics product on Amazon, ranking it well above both the Roomba and the Hitachi Magic Wand vibraror. Or so I’ve been told.
The BBC News Magazine honored this great occasion with an essay by an eloquent thirteen-year-old (a clever ploy for publications that can’t afford to pay adult journalists…and don’t have access to monkeys). It took young Scott Campbell three days to figure out that the tape he was given had two sides. This wasn’t the only thing that confused him. “I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette,” he writes. “I’m relieved that the majority of technological advancement happened before I was born.” Indeed. Had he been born in 1859, he’d now be dead. (These are the thoughts that pro journalists are paid to think.)
The BBC News Magazine also offers up an article on sturdy household objects that were made long before “planned obsolescence” was a familiar term. But really, the focus of the piece is Joan Archer, a 66-year-old from Pembrokeshire who has bravely used the the same Kenwood Chef food mixer since 1964. Long live print media.
