Who doesn't want a gigantic banana to play their vinyls? Plays 33 and 45 rpm records in any position, and comes with a carrying strap as shown in the inset.
Guessing here, but looks to me like the white thing holds the record in place. Otherwise, the record might fall off in some positions.
Photo of a surviving example,
29 Comments
Mr_Wobble@thelemmy.club · 20 pts · 24d
brem@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 24d
Electrical banana is fun on the go Electro-Banana sounds better though
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
quite right-ly
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 24d
Should'a called it Banana Split
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 1 pts · 24d
The song was about vibrators. This is a rather large one.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 24d
This is as portable as vinyl record players have ever gotten. You can buy this today for $200
Here's a TechMoan video about it: https://youtu.be/b48XD9P8klM
spip@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d
I have one and love it. Can only use it upright though. That must be banana technology lost to time.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 24d
Adjusted for inflation the banana player cost about $300
EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 24d
Oh wow. One apparently sold on ebay for $1500!
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 24d
That’s a lot of money, even without the factorial.
EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 24d
Ha! Now I'm curious. It overflowed my calculator app, but if my web query is right, that's around 4 x 10^2567.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 23d
😂 There’s not enough money in the universe to cover that bill.
Syndication@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 24d
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 24d
Bet it took like 8 D batteries when not plugged in.
brem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 24d
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 23d
Let's put on some Velvet Underground!
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 24d
It's a banana, what could it cost, $10?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 24d
Banana for scale
everett@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 24d
Yes.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 24d
"portable"
Remember the first "portable" computers? We called them "luggable".
EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 24d
The more I think about this the more I can see the a-peel of it.
maychill@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
!turntables@lemmy.world
nieminen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23d
Bananaphone!
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
Banana phone-o-graph
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 24d
It's like something dreamt up by a record company:
"How can we sell more records?"
Shitty engineer: "Let's make a portable record player that even works upside down. This will require a massive spring on the tone arm, which will wear down both needles and records at a... record pace!"
EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 24d
You could almost say... they went bananas. But it took a bunch of them to come up with that idea.
brem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 24d
RichardNixos@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 23d
Do they call it Mellow Yellow?
aeiou@piefed.social · 1 pts · 24d
Is the model in the ad wearing a monkey mask?
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 18d
I really want this thing honestly, looks cool as fuck
Sxan@piefed.zip · -11 pts · 24d
It's smaller þan shown in þe ad: 25x8x11". It looks 4' long in þe ad, unless þe girl is, like, 7y/o.