Cassette tape USB hub

phisrow

#1 – 4:57 PM August 8, 2009

I can't quite decide: is the "new tech inside old tech" trope a manifestation of the laughing, but essentially loving, nostalgia that makes college students watch children's cartoons or is it a manifestation of the atavistic desire to mutilate and humiliate the corpses of your fallen enemies that Achilles dragging Hector around or people making necklaces out of severed ears?

Rob Beschizza

#2 – 6:48 PM August 8, 2009

Or, perhaps, 3) Old stuff just looks better.

jere7my

#3 – 10:17 PM August 8, 2009

I would buy it just for this quote from their FAQ:

Question: How is this different than a regular (boring) USB Hub?

Answer: The Cassette Tape USB Hub looks like a cassette tape. So, it's awesome and not boring.

wrybread

#4 – 11:00 PM August 8, 2009

Absolutely beautiful, especially to someone like me who was making mixed cassette tapes in high school, but I can't take any USB hub seriously that isn't externally powered.

HeatherB

#5 – 5:22 AM August 9, 2009

It's not nostalgia that makes me watch children's cartoons. It's discovering all the jokes I was too little to know when I first watched them and the fact that Looney Tunes is much better than "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack"

strider_mt2k

#6 – 11:18 AM August 9, 2009

This USB hub has a new hat...

Enochrewt

#7 – 9:05 AM August 10, 2009

I had a couple of happy spasms when I saw this.