looking at old consumer electronics can make you realize just how far we haven’t come – i just discovered transistor.org, sarah lowrey’s website dedicated to her transistor radio collection. flipping through these vintage audio players you can find a lot of the trends that seem so pervasive today, as well as design ideas we still haven’t gotten to in today’s devices. there is a very small radio, a simple white box radio, radios available in multiple colors, radios with soft protective sleeves and luxury-branded radios. on the other hand, there is a handful of new ideas we haven’t yet seen in audio players of today: a solar radio, and my favorite, a lace-encased radio where the cloth was impregnated with acrylic to make a subtly delicate piece of hardware.
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