USB Tape Hub: If You're Crazy About Casettes

If you're one of those retro-hip people who are crazy about cassette tapes, and the USB Mixa Tape wasn't enough for you, then Iwoot is here to feed your appetite for cassette shaped gadgets with the the USB Tape Hub.

Once upon a time a cassette tape was a passport to blowing a Sunday afternoon making "The Best Rock Collection in the World Ever II", nowadays a computer the same size can power a space station (and store your whole music collection). That's technology for you. Something had to be done with all those redundant cassettes, and in a wonderfully retro meets techno moment, a bright spark has neatly inserted a quad set of USB ports into it. Now you can power up all your myriad of USB devices with a blast from the past.

Kitschy? Yes. Awesome? You bet. The price? £12.99 (US$24.16; why is it always the British who get all this cool stuff?)

Oh, and once again, this hub also does not contain some kind of cassette magic, as the product page warns:

This is not a real cassette tape and attempts to play it in a cassette player could cause serious damage to your stereo and the hub.

The ones who would try to shove it in a tape deck? Yeah, I'm looking at you. You know who you are.

Product Page [Iwoot]
[via: BBG]