TAYBLES tap into our nostalgia for cassette tapes, a love of handcrafted wood furniture and a functional desire to have mood lighting close at hand.

The Los Angeles company creates wooden tables, each shaped like a tape and sealed with clear epoxy. LED lights tucked into the pair of central holes add light and color to the room.

The ‘tape’ part of the cassette turns out to conceal a secret, too: storage space for books, gadgets or, well, tapes, situated in the center of the empty table.

The biggest difference between models (besides the great variety of woods and their associated hues) is, of course, the label, which can be customized to feature your favorite tunes, a hand-written list of songs or whatever you desire.

Minimalist metal supports provide a likewise-vintage and non-distracting structural system to keep your tape table floating on air.

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Despite cassette tapes’ reputation for offering low-quality sound, this tape-to-MP3 converter exists. It looks a lot like an old-style cassette Walkman, but it’s got a slot to slide in an iPhone or iPod Touch on one side. All you have to do is insert the cassette tape, dock the iDevice, and press play – the included app converts the music to MP3 format.

You can listen to your favorite cassettes from the device by plugging in a pair of headphones, or you can connect the device to a stereo system. The Cassette to iPod Converter is available from Hammacher Schlemmer for around $80 – which is actually a pretty good deal if you still have a huge stack of cassettes sitting around, waiting for their comeback.

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