Naf Naf Hyp music player resembles keg

These days, you can find a digital music player in just about every shape and size imaginable, but we should have known the Europeans would find a way to incorporate a favorite pastime into a modern day music maker. The Naf Naf Hyp joins the ranks of odd, yet refreshing, digital audio players that offer the standard fare we've come to know and love, but this keg features an unexpected extra that sadly we have little use for. While this little barrel can playback MP3s, display ID3 tags on the circular LED display, spin standard or MP3-loaded CDs, and pump out the jams through the 2 watt stereo speakers, the oddball here is the built-in cassette player -- yes, cassette, also known as a tape. Aside from that little dash of history, it rocks a graphic EQ, AM / FM tuner, aux-input, alarm clock, multifunction remote, and even a "foldaway carrying handle" to take it back for a refill. Although the quality here is really anybody's guess, it's still going to be mighty hard to resist such a fitting party ornament, and with these available now in red or black for 759,00 DKK (about $130), you can keep your MP3 collection (or 1985 mix tape) on tap.

[Via Red Ferret]

[Lemmiwinks @ Aug 12th 2006 12:07PM]

Or you could roll your own...

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/bubbacomp/

[redpill @ Aug 12th 2006 12:07PM]

didnt naff naff make really annoying cloths in the 90s

didnt they???

Huh??

Anyone???

Huh???

Huh????

[yosh @ Aug 12th 2006 12:27PM]

NAFNAF still do make clothes in Europe. Just not here in UK. I hear they're more well known in Spain and Portugal.

Anyway, back to the point you were going to make.. yes, this NAFNAF music player is the same NAFNAF as the clothing company.

[Perrey Z. @ Aug 12th 2006 12:47PM]

NAFNAF... Sounds like a prescription pill.

[Nith @ Aug 12th 2006 1:21PM]

I must say the tape thing is odd... Does anyone still have tapes that they listen to? While cassete tapes are by no means 'before my time' I still find it easier to buy a small MP3 player (you can pick up 128Mb player for close to $30CA) and listen to the same songs on that. The only reason they put it in is probably cause they had empty space because of the design, so they thought why not.

[V8v @ Aug 12th 2006 4:29PM]

Sure, but why stop at a cassette deck? Make the thing a little biggger and throw in an 8-track player, too.

[rickm @ Aug 12th 2006 8:05PM]

Or link two together for some hot reel to reel action! You might even be able to put a turntable up on top of it.

[Stubb @ Aug 12th 2006 8:37PM]

Hmm so basically it's a portable radio, a portable (mp3-enabled) CD player and a walkman smelted together into an unwieldy barrel thing?

To me it looks quite old, 5-6 years, probably. Around the time where you could still buy walkmen in stores and the real high-end cd players could play mp3. Amusing, but I doubt it's news...

[Hartmeister @ Aug 13th 2006 8:55AM]

I'm reposting this since for some reason my comments didn't post. One big reason you might want an cassette player is audiobooks. Many audiobook manufacturers have much of their older titles in cassette only. The situation is even much worse if you go to your average public library. Find me an established library that has even half their audiobook collection in CDs and you should get an award. My local library has a 10:1 ratio of the number of cassettes versus CDs.

[Shane @ Aug 13th 2006 1:55PM]

If the cassette deck can encode to MP3 files or the CD player can rip to MP3 and those files can be brought back to your PC, count me in!