The Tape Express works like a regular portable cassette player, but also plugs into your computer via USB ready to make digital copies of all your old favourites.

Our world is filled with amazing devices that render life simpler for us to live. Many gadgets provide a more convenient method of completing office tasks, some can supply us with comfort, some can help us communicate better, while other devices provide high quality entertainment anywhere we journey to. In the past, the Walkman portable cassette player was thought to be one of the greatest portable music players on earth. Using it, you would be in a position to partake of your favorite songs anywhere you go. This was the ‘in’ thing previously and thanks to this, it’s evolved in to something better.

Portable CD Walkmans were also very famous around the mid 90′s and folks simply couldn’t have their fill of them as with the high end digital sound they promoted, almost everyone wished to get one, and over time almost everybody did get one. Though, the issue with portable CD players was that they’d skip especially when you subjected them to vibrations. For instance, when you went jogging, you would get skips in the songs when you produced bumps and vibrations as you ran. Even shock reducers and shock absorbers integrated with your portable CD players weren’t enough.

That opened the path to developing the iPod and during its debut, the Apple iPod turned out extremely popular with a lot of individuals. With the option to keep and listen to gigabytes worth of mp3 format music, people were now permitted to hear their favorite music and not need to change a CD. Because the music is stored in an integrated hard disc, the iPod doesn’t experience any skips in audio even while it is exposed to bumping or shakes and that made the iPod the most popular media player on earth.

Now, the latest Apple iPod Touch is currently taking the earth by storm and a great many folks wish to own one, but why else is the iPod Touch so popular? Well, for starters, there is an itouch 32GB that will allow you to store mp3 audio tracks, video recordings, and it will even let you store pictures as well as games.

The iPod Touch also has a built in WiFi mobile platform which means that with the gadget, you’ll be allowed to access the Internet wherever you go if you’re within a WiFi area. Clearly, the iPod Touch is far more than just a multimedia player, it is also a personal computer where you will be allowed to access the web, browse your favorite website and even check your emails.

The multi touch screen technology offers an extra oomph to the device and it’s simply fashionable so anyone that would like to be contemporary must get one. The coolest part of an iPod Touch is that it’s so small that it could sit inside a pocket and, you don’t need to fear with storing it inside a pocket with any keys either since an iPod Touch is made to be sturdy as well as scratch resistant.

So, the next time you plan on buying a multimedia player, you should go for iPod Touch because with this device, you can be sure that you will never get bored again wherever you travel to.

We pointed out why gadgets were more expensive 30 years ago, but it is also important to note that many of these gadgets were hilariously huge. I’ve collected eight examples, I’ll leave it up to you to add the rest.

In other words, feel free to use our new comments system to add photos of any oversized retro gadgets you have access to.

In the ’70s and early ’80s, it was trendy to offset tiny, crappy screens with enormous and ornate wooden consoles. My family had one of these when I was a kid—looking back on it, I understand why my father chose to put it on the lowest level of our house. It would have seriously compromised the structural integrity of any floor it was sitting on. [TV History]
This is what passed for a widescreen television in 1978. However, the GE Widescreen 1000 really wasn’t widescreen at all. In reality this absurdly huge cabinet housed a small CRT screen that used “a vertical deflection reversing switch to invert and laterally reverse the image, and a three element lens within a light-proof projection chamber to re-invert, magnify and project the image onto a forward projection type reflective screen.” In other words, the image was artificially enlarged through projection. Oh, and that beastly monstrosity sitting next to it is an early VHS recorder. Back in the day, video players like this one could weigh 30 pounds or more. [Flickr and RetroThing]
Surely you are familiar with the DynaTAC 8000X—the first commercially available mobile phone. Seriously, is Dr Martin Cooper making a call to his wife or calling in an air strike? [Puremobile]
The Walkman portable cassette player made its debut in 1979, but if you wanted a more feature rich portable player, you risked a dislocated shoulder picking up one of these ghetto blasters. ['80s Rewind]
Today we have camcorders built into our tiny cellphones. In the ’70s and early ’80s you had to deal with beasts like the Sony SL-F1 Betamax camera. Before the advent of the Betamovie BMC-100P personal camcorder in 1983, the camera and the portable recorder were not integrated into a single unit. [Wikipedia]
The JVC HR-4100 was the first ever “portable” VHS recorder, but this woman appears to be in over her head. This is definitely a “team lift” situation. [Rewind Museum]
We bitch about gas guzzling SUV’s now, but get a load of this ’73 Thunderbird. Seriously, there is enough metal between the cabin and the grill to take on a locomotive. [Corral.net]
Microwaves in the ’70s were big enough to crawl into. According to the owner, this particular model weighed around 80 pounds. [Forty Two]
Bonus: Glasses are not really a gadget, but honestly, what the hell was going on in the ’70s? I have to admit though, Wonder Woman still looks great with those telescopes attached to her face. Anyway, thank God for contacts and Lasik. [Blurbomat]