Cassette tape USB hub

Doug Aamoth spots a cool USB hub in the form of a cassette tape. [vat19 via CrunchGear]

1. [phisrow]

   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?

2. [Rob Beschizza]

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

3. [jere7my]

   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.

4. [wrybread]

   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.

5. [HeatherB]

   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”

6. [strider_mt2k]

   This USB hub has a new hat…

7. [Enochrewt]

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