Cassettes are back, and this player looks like it escaped from a lab. It is the cassette answer to the vinyl revival. The Coolgeek P1 puts the whole mechanism on display behind a clear body, framed in CNC-machined aluminum with metal controls. An HD display names nearby Bluetooth devices before you pair, and it also takes a wired 3.5mm connection. It plays every tape type in stereo, and it is playback only, with no recording and no Dolby.
It is $119 on Kickstarter right now, against a $179 retail price, with shipping starting in early December. The campaign is already funded many times over. The only question is whether your tapes are still in a box somewhere.
