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?
Ordered one off of ebay in hopes of using it with my iphone 3G S while traveling. It pairs fine, and the iphone will route (mono) voice to it, but not music.
My Stereo bluetooth headset that supports A2DP works fine with both voice & music.
In other words, this adaptor does NOT work with the iPhone for streaming music, as the iPhone refuses to route stereo over a mono BT connection.
:(
This doesn’t work for music on windows mobile it does work for hands free phone,but that’s not what I was looking for.
I have a combo CD/tape player in the car and have been scouring the internet for a device such as this for a couple of years now.
I bought this and it doesn’t support a2dp so music comes out mono and generally lame.
however… pairing it to my blackberry bold it will very capably play the role of handsfree and will play all my podcasts which is exactly why I bought it!
Since my phone automatically pauses the podcasts when I get a call it’s a perfect commuter’s tool!
Now i’m waiting for them crazy taiwanese to come out with one with a2dp… since the car i got I’m driving into the ground!
Does not support A2DP, which means the iPhone will not broadcast MP3 audio to this device. Also, transmits only in mono, so even with a compatible device it’s essentially useless for listening to audio. Does cause a good deal of interference, and call audio quality is very poor/distorted. Would not recommend this product.