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Get Your Retro On: Mixed Tape Madness

GeekSugar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:01:20 -0700

I love a good mixed tape, which is why I love all these retro-inspired goodies that resemble the 80's icon. Who didn't love receiving a good mixed tape from a friend, or even better, a crush? I thought so. Check out some of my favorite mixed tape items right here in this slideshow!

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Holy Retro, Batman: Geeky Retro Tech Placemats

GeekSugar — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:00:40 -0700

Everyone needs to eat, so why not cover up that vintage hand-me-down table you have shoved in your dining room with some geeky placemats like the ones I found on Holy Cool?

For about $16 dollars for a pack of six (plus tax and shipping of course), you can get your own set of record player, cassette, or old-school ghetto blaster placemats and stay totally entertained during dinner. Unfortunately, they don't actually function as working gadgets, so you'll just have to pretend and break your mom's rule of no singing at the table.

Crocheted VHS Tape Bag. . . Enough Said

GeekSugar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:15:48 -0700

I bet your grandma hasn't had you over for a crochet-making session where she uses tape from old VHS tapes?! Now if she has, that's pretty rad, and I guess you can pretty much crochet any material that can be woven into a crocheted masterpiece, right?! As you can probably guess, this bag made entirely from recycled plastics has left me dumbfounded. In order to make this handmade bag, Etsy seller BarkerBell used a trash bag as the plastic liner and fused it to the VHS tape. For $50, it could have been yours. Sadly, it's already flown off the Etsy shelf.

Make a MIXA USB Cassette Tape

GeekSugar — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:00:59 -0700

Now you can take an ordinary looking cassette tape, personalize it to your liking and use it as a USB flash drive! The retro style make-a-MIXA USB cassette tape comes with 1GB of storage and a set of designer stickers for you to decorate it with or you can upload your own images to use. Featured on OhGizmo! the MIXA costs around $40 and includes international shipping. Don't they remind you of the retro-chic cassette wallets? Fun and functional!

Incognito Cassette Tape MP3 Player

GeekSugar — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:00:58 -0700

If you are one of the thousands who has had your iPod snatched unwittingly, here's a mp3 player that is guaranteed to fool the most clever thief. This snazzy cassette mp3 player is literally a standard cassette with a built-in mp3 player. Discussed on technabob, these retro looking cassettes come with a seven button interface, an SD card slot and can be recharged by a USB cable. This product will be available soon. No word on pricing just yet.

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Cassette Wallets by Marcella Foschi

GeekSugar — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:09:44 -0700

These fun neon bright retro cassette wallets made their debut at the Tokyo Designboom 2006 Mart where young design professionals showcased their latest products and showed off their geeky talents. Created by Italian designer Marcella Foschi, these wallets are actually hand made from real (Italian) cassette tapes. Geek chic and Italian - be still my heart.

You can get your own for $36 at Design Boom.

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Cassette Tape Lamp: Love It or Leave It?

GeekSugar — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:30:16 -0700

Whether it coordinates with your decor or not, some things get free passes for being eco-friendly examples of recycled objects that would have been wasted otherwise. Such is the case with this Cassette Tape Lamp by Transparent House.

Indeed, while this lamp, made up of used, superfluous cassette tapes possesses a certain '80s aesthetic, it's also disarmingly ethereal - and it hits me right in my green spot. I've got to say, for this: love it!

What about you? Does it hit you in your green spot, too, or your just-plain-ugly spot?

Hook It Up With the Cassette Tape USB Hub

GeekSugar — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:44:19 -0700

I'm not sure if it's the fact that this Cassette Tape USB Hub is, well, a cassette tape that makes me a little bit excited, or if it's the fact that I can hook up four more peripherals to my machine when I need it. Having some extra ports can come in super handy when I'm rocking my stylish netbook and need to connect my camera and external hard drive at the same time. Or you know, to plug in my USB mini fridge to cool my Diet Coke. Whatever.

I could easily throw down the $15 or so that it takes to get my hands on this, mostly because I have an obsession with mixed tapes and old-school boomboxes.

Mr. Roboto Utensil Holders: Geeky Green

GeekSugar — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:00:16 -0700

King of Green Danny Seo is known for his eco-friendly home décor ideas; he recycles and reuses like you wouldn't believe, with more creativity in his little finger than I have in my whole body, or ever will.

He frequently gets geeky, reusing old media that I would normally give to Goodwill or let sit in the back of my closet until a big purge.

A couple weeks ago, he recycled old CDs into dumbells, and now he gathered another tech relic - cassette tapes - grabbed some other junk, and glued them onto old cans to make robot faces and voila, Mr. Roboto utensil cups.

Sure, they're more than a little bit goofy, but they're also disarmingly cute and a great way to keep the life cycle of a piece of "junk" going!

geeksugar's Gift Guide: Gifts For Office Mates

GeekSugar — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:00:49 -0800

Even if you don't have an office Secret Santa program in effect, you'll definitely want to keep your office mates on your gift list this holiday season.

Since you probably see them more than you see your family, why not throw down for a little something-something for your fellow cube dwellers? I'm sure just the thought would be appreciated, which is why all of these gifts are under $25 bucks, so you'll be able to spread more love around the office.

Check out my picks below, but for even more gifting ideas, check out HolidaySugar!

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File Folders with Attitude $7	Spider Screen Cleaner $10
Grassy Desk Organizer $10	RoboForm2Go USB Password Manager $10
The Bevy $15	I Am Not A Paper Cup $20
Laptop Lunch Bento Box $23	Mimobot: Holybot $25
MyTunes MP3 Amp $25	Cassette Tape Dispenser $25