Still, finding something to actually play those cassettes on can be tricky — unless you or your parents have been holding on to old equipment for decades. Kaplan says that your best bet to find ...

While her music may be experimental, cassettes couldn't be more old-school. They became popular in the '70s and '80s, an alternative to vinyl. Compact discs had overtaken both formats by the early ...

“I feel like cassettes kind of got forgotten ... a lot of kids that are fascinated with things that are vintage, like old camcorders, T-shirts, comic books.” Lou Ottens, the inventor of ...

The GB-001 is a portable Bluetooth speaker that looks like a reimagining of the classic boomboxes from the 1980s. It features ...

I’ve started painting other out-of-date pieces of technology, like old cellphones and laptops ... When I first started painting cassette tapes, I was also experimenting with CD cases.

But on April 27, physical media will rise once again at the first-ever NYC Tape Fair in Bushwick, where vendors' tables will be stacked with old and new cassettes tapes, stacks of VHS tapes in ...

Remember cassettes? If you're old enough, you might remember dropping one into a player, only to have it screech at you when you pressed "play." We've fixed that problem. But why would we bother?

Old cassette tapes are stacked on shelves at Mohammad Ashraf Matoo’s cassette tape player repair shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. Credit: AP/Dar Yasin A ...

“We get a bit of everything,” says Mr Jones. “Old cassettes, CD players, headphones, speakers, plus turntables. What’s good about the old gear is they kind of last [longer], and you can ...

But on April 27, physical media will rise once again at the first-ever NYC Tape Fair in Bushwick, where vendors’ tables will be stacked with old and new cassettes tapes, stacks of VHS tapes in their ...