Startup, The Technology of Music

Startup: A Weekend Project

Ten points to anyone who can reverse-engineer it just from that photo.

I’ve bought more than my fair share of small, portable laptop speakers and miniature sound systems over the years. Particularly back when Cardboard and I were beach bums as much as possible — gotta go where the scantily-clad ladies are, right? — it was nice to have something portable to provide a bit of sound while relaxing on the beach, trying not to get whiplash.

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Startup: The First Walkman

* Some assembly required.

I saw this amazing little device on the TV show “Pawn Stars” the other day, and it captured my imagination. This little device is a portable record player. It played full-sized 78-rpm records, and was powered entirely by a spring crank. The sound quality, as they demonstrated on the [...]