If you’ve just time-travelled in from 1992, with only your collection of Right Said Fred and Pet Shop Boys cassettes and a pair of those baggy MC Hammer pants, you’re gonna have a bad time very soon – Sony has confirmed that it will cease production of its cassette player\/recorder ranges sometime early next year. Your pants are another problem altogether.<\/p>\n
From January 2013, Sony’s TCM-410, TCM-400, and TCM-450 portable cassette tape player\/recorders will be permanently discontinued. You might say the tape has totally run out <\/em>on them, but probably only if you’re old enough to remember that sort of stuff.<\/p>\n I’d say it’s the end of an era, but I think I’d be about 10 years too late for that even. Honestly, I’m amazed they’re still making these things at all. Even CDs have become increasingly irrelevant for a generation that simply downloads music. Over wireless internet. While browsing their Xbox cloud saves on their tablets in the middle of a stereoscopic 3D movie theatre. In their own homes. Holy crap, it’s the future already.<\/p>\n The evolution of cell phone design<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 5 best gadgets from CES 2013 Innovations list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Countdown clock puts a D-Day on anything<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nSource: Gizmodo<\/a><\/h5>\n
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