PlusDeckEX Makes Archiving Old Cassettes Simple

A fancy-pants iPod Touch is all well and good, but there's nothing like the halcyon days of crappy old cassette tapes.  In fact, while most of us would gladly forget the damned things, coming only into contact with them when renting a particularly shoddy hire car, there are others for whom life would not be complete without that old Tammy Wynette cassette.  So for you sweet, innocent few, here's BTO's bricktastic PlusDeckEX, a USB tape-deck with all the features you could ever stomach desire.

Oh yes, not only do you get that sweet USB connection, but RCA inputs and outputs, 7.1 surround sound (is that actually possible with a tape?), LCD control panel, AM/FM radio and a remote. 

Frankly, while I'm sure there are many with the odd cassette that they'd like to archive as an MP3, I can't imagine many people actively needing to refer to so many tapes that they need to buy something like this.  But maybe I'm being unimaginative; if you can think of a reason – beyond being in charge of digitising a great big archival library – then educate me via the comments!

BTO PlusDeckEX [via Akihabara]