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Uhhh… what?
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They keep using that word…
Yes. Yes it will.
Now they’ve taken the headphone jack out of Walkmen? This shit has gone way too far.
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If I’m gonna lug something that big around, it’d better at least play my fucking audio cassettes, is what I’m saying.
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One mustn’t underestimate the bond between an '80s kid and his Walkman.
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I have an old walkman housing I was thinking of turning into a phone case and realized there was enough room for a battery (or two!) as well.
I have to wonder if the retro styling here is just to conceal the fact that the power bank is a clunky, obsolete bit of kit many times larger than comparable modern devices, while increasing the mark-up.
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Now, show me something that’s an actual Walkman (with headphone jack) AND ALSO a power bank, and then maybe we can have a conversation.
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Adam Savage makes Starlord’s Walkman prop.
Source: Video from Tested/Adam Savage on YouTube, published September 9 ᵗ ʰ, 2019.
One could use this powerbank as a prop, or one could make a prop that was a powerbank, had a MP3 player cassette (a Google search shows they are available), and could also serve as a wallet. That does seem like a lot of work. Bonus points to the person that adds inductive charging too.
A digression- I miss my Awai ruggedized Walkman. It had a nice water resistant case that one of their AM/FM tape players could fit in, so if it died one didn’t have to chuck the whole thing. It was durable and had a UV “meter” that one could slather with sunscreen to see when one needed to get out of the sun. I went to find an image of one of the two models I owned and I must be in a parallel universe as I have yet to find an image of it.
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If I’m going to carry around something as bulky as a walkman, I’d rather it actually be useful, though.
Ow, my brain hurts.
Speaking of problems that didn’t need solving, but God bless the Kurzweil singularity:
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Now someone needs to do this for movies. Turn a (sound) film into a silent one with an auto-orchestra recreating the soundtrack as a live experience…
Oh, kind of like…
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Perfect! That totally works, because you’d also need subtitles/title cards to understand what it’s saying…
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