Amazing manual record player
February 3rd, 2005
This promotional record player made for Skippy Peanut Butter requires the listener to unfold the paper megaphone, put the needle onto the disc, insert a pencil through the center of the record, and turn it manually. Brilliant idea – one we should use for our business cards if we can figure out how to manufacture a mini record, and how to make a needle that will play it. What a great example of outside the box thinking!
Link via BoingBoing
TO THOSE CONDUCTING COMMENT WAR: OK kids, let’s keep it under control in here, or I’m turning the car around RIGHT NOW. No, seriously, I’m going to screen out all the bigotry here…
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November 1st, 2007 at 11:47 am
Are you retarded? “How to make a needle that will play a record”? All it takes is a sheet of paper folded into a cone. The pointed end is the needle and the outer part amplifies the sound that is played through the needle.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Simon Says is an asshole. Either that or he gets really really mad when people don’t understand how a record player works, which would be why the first thing he said was an insult. The reason why the first thing I said was an insult. Because I am bored, and think its amusing the defend random people on the internet.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Casey is a moron, simon just asked if they were retarded hardly an insult.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Clearly you are all buffoons.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:17 pm
We all know that records are played with the devils trickery, you kids and your rock ‘n roll.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:17 pm
I’d love to see a video of this thing in action… Freakin cool!
On a side note, I think the hardest part of this would be the record, the needle could really be anything sharp/small enough to glide in the groves, attached to the cone on some sort of vibrating membrane, the record in this day and age would prove very hard to find.
November 1st, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Records are available in many music stores(what mall does have shitty 45s in a hot topic?) and are still in active production. Well, I suppose flexis (like the ones that came with listen-along books years back) are pretty rare, though, and that’s what’s needed here.
Until a next-gen digital audio format is chosen as THE format it will continue to sound better…until you scratch it.
But yeah. This idea rules. 90% self contained and reliable.
If someone could make business card into sort of capacative transducer that would be awesome.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 am
Yawn… here’s a paper phonograph. You don’t need a needle.
http://www.simonelvins.com/paper_record.html
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:30 am
I can second that emotion.
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:42 am
What a bunch of fucking smartass shitheads! Take something kind of cool and dump on it. Grow up!
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 am
deeznutts : asshole
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
It is definitely cool. The uncool assholes are:
Simon (“are you retarded?”)
Jason (“being called retarded is hardly an insult”)
These two people (probably the same person) with their stupid nastygrams resulted in several other people jumping in to call them assholes, which, in fact, they are.
So, back to the point… it’s a cool business card and you don’t need a needle for a phonograph. The biggest difficulty would be in making the tiny record if someone wanted to copy the idea.
Do we all agree?
Case closed.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
Tenthousandwaves rules and should become the web’s Comment Vigilante; wears cape, gives smack down to asinine comment spewers and closes cases all over the web.
This post is great, and very aptly categorized. Wish we could hear an mp3 of the recording.
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:25 pm
That is cool. To tenthousandwaves: Take a close look at the photos in your link… they’re still using a needle inside that paper cone. On the needle being difficult by itself.. nah, any straight pin or safety pin point is small enough to hit a record groove. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2YRH1dS8Mg&mode=related&search=
To the socially awkward rectal sphincters: Keep at it. without you, we all might find something productive to do besides jumping in to call you rectal sphincters, resulting in massive economic distress due to increased single cube-worker efficiency.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
i love the comments on the internet, fucking hilarious. this is a perfect example.
November 5th, 2007 at 9:49 am
i is no retard
November 5th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
yeah, avoiding the small text war above.
This would make a wicked cool business card.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:38 am
good old stupit humor.this just made my day, the comments were better than the record player
November 15th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
jason is an asshole, more than anyone
November 20th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
wow…where do the batteries fit in?
November 20th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
where could get one of these things? i would like to see it in action.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:15 pm
does it run linux?