We’ve seen a lot of cassette adapters, and we’ve seen interesting Bluetooth devices, but this is a pretty damn cool mash-up.
Let’s say you’ve got an old car with a cassette deck still. And you’ve got a DAP or musicphone with Bluetooth. You could use a cassette-to-headphone jack adapter, but where’s the geek in that?
This lighter jack-powered cassette adapter uses Bluetooth to connect to your phone or MP3 player. It’s ghetto and cool at the same time, just like we like it.
Now, if this were really ingenious it would include a small generator to power it through the tape deck’s moving spindles which normally advance the tape.
Chuck, I think so
But it also works to take calls in your car too? That sets these gadgets apart from others.
I would assume it plays the call through your audio speakers since its going through the bluetooth, what it needs is a way to hook up a mic to it instead of the power adapter and have the power generated by the rotating tape spindle instead like the poster above said. Because the way bluetooth works on most phones I’ve seen, if you have bluetooth head phones paired it uses that for headphones and mic.
haha yeah, the second i saw this i was like “why not add a generator and scrap the power plug?” … then I read the comments… Great minds think alike, no? :P course, with that kind of size, anything’s possible… an SD slot or two, even a built in hard drive… why not go all the way? make it an MP3 playing Digital Cassette, with bluetooth (and a remote, also bluetooth, mike?)… t’would be the unchallengeable king of car accessories… (was considering an FM radio… but not really any point… the reception would be terrible within a tape drive, anyway… and most cars that have a casette player also have FM…)
Has anyone actuall used this item, and how well does it work?
I just got this, and I have not been able to get it sync with my Tomtom 720.
I read the instruction, well the passages in english. The battery life is for 5 hours, after 2 hours of charging, and it does not work while plugged into the charger.
if i bought an ipod bluetooth transmitter and pluged it into the ipod and this bluetooth tape in my car cassette player will i get wireless music thanx
well the new iPhone 3.0 software now includes stereo bluetooth support, so this would SEEM an ideal match. HOWEVER, all the specs for this thing say it only supports handsfree and headset profiles which I THINK are just mono. A2DP is stereo but I don’t think this thing supports the A2DP profile… can anyone confirm?