How does the media server/tape player work? With those memories flooding back, I thought why not actually make the iRecorder for real? A digital music player, with as much of the original player's touch-and-feely nature as possible and so this is what I came up with! Large chunky buttons, which had a level of resistance when you pressed them, not like your rubber or touch sensitive buttons of today. That brought back tonnes of happy memories of creating mixtapes for (potential) girlfriends, and recording the charts every Saturday while trying not to get the DJ's voice in the recording - an art form I was particularly good at - and it reminded me of how substantial these types of players were back then.

CNET caught up with Matt to find out why he combined old and new tech, how he created the next-generation tape player, and how a rapping cartoon cat figures into all this.Ī friend of mine happened to tweet about a gift he had received for his birthday called the iRecorder, which is a speaker for your iPhone in the style of a cassette player.

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