Perhaps the stupidest consumer electronics product ever made?

[Ghetteaux Les Fabulous]

Hey, here an idea... let's combine the inconvenience of reel-to-reel tapes with the limited sound quality of Compact Cassettes!



Brilliant! Let's put it in production! We'll call it the O'casse....



Reels are open to the elements because nobody sticks their tapes in pockets or anything like that...



....and it's not like cassette shells are expensive or hard to come by.



Imagine some kid on the Tokyo subway trying to fumble with this just to play another tape. Don't know how well this product did (or didn't) but I imagine they repurposed the tooling used for these to make all those 'reel-to-reel' cassetes everyone nowadays has to have for their boombox collection.

 

[k2j]

no doubt. So cool, yet so incredibly inconvenient!

 

[devol-toni]

This stupidest consumer electronics product ever made is rare to find and it goes quite high with the price at online sales

 

[AE_Stereo]

Price for the stupidity!

Its prices have gone to Hundreds now.

 

[Reli]

I have a set of those, and gave another to my brother in law. Cool collectors item, even though it's silly and impractical.

 

[Beosystem10]

Sometimes, the least sensible, least practical things are cool just because they look so darned good.......

Now just try taking your other half to a posh restaurant in that!

 

[im_alan_partridge]

Not sure I would use one of these but I do think they look pretty cool.

 

[devol-toni]

Sometimes, the least sensible, least practical things are cool just because they look so darned good.......

Now just try taking your other half to a posh restaurant in that!

Well, that's what we are, unreasonable and impractical species

 

[superlew]

Sad, but true: I've wanted to pick one of these up for a while, but the prices are as silly as the concept.

Edit: Just noticed this extremely contradicting graphic:

 

[redbenjoe]

agree --cool impractical things RULE !!!

 

[Ghetteaux Les Fabulous]

Just imagine taking that thing up to lovers lane.

Gee officer... all I remember is a blur of orange jumpsuits... and all of a sudden, my clothes were missing... and then put back on!

Sometimes, the least sensible, least practical things are cool just because they look so darned good.......

Now just try taking your other half to a posh restaurant in that!

 

[teisco]

look here

http://www.ebay.de/itm/TEAC-OC-2N-O-Casse-Reel-open-Tape-2-piece-NT-50-aus-1986-metal-tape-cassette-/310714372378?pt=DE_iAudio_Hi_Fi_Audiophile_Tontr%C3%A4ger&hash=item485805111a

 

[JustCruisin]

they def look cool!

 

[oldskool69]

Yep...the more idiotic it is, the more it will be worth somewhere down the line.

 

[Ghetteaux Les Fabulous]

Am I to guess then, your lives are now incomplete without a set?

 

[oldskool69]

Am I to guess then, your lives are now incomplete without a set?

Wrong...You will not see me paying that kind of scratch for one of those. If I luck up on one for nothing or next to nothing...sure. But not at what seems to be the going rate.

 

[Reli]

The historical going rate is actually only $60-90.
That dude will never get his asking price.... there's always someone else selling one.

 

[Beosystem10]

Yep...the more idiotic it is, the more it will be worth somewhere down the line.

By that logic, I should have been a multi-millionaire by the time I hit 30.

48 and 3/4 and still working on that.


In line with the topic of this thread though; I went on the internet and found these silly ideas. I like the potty with the built-in tablet, I'd bet that several of these are in service at the Scottish parliament as I write this.