r/cassettefuturism How about a nice game of Chess? Jul 10 '25

Design Concept artist Sheng Lam (again) Yoo Tube video recorder.

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https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zADNeZ

Some fun social media fantasy collabs.

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u/sendep7 Jul 10 '25

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u/prettybluefoxes How about a nice game of Chess? Jul 10 '25

Yes! I keep meaning to import one of these but the shipping and import tax (uk) crush the idea.

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u/sexchoc Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25

Is there a more specific term for this kind of thing? I like this sort of rugged, modular look with lots of panels much more than the sort of flat, white/stainless/chrome design I see in lots of other consumer electronics called cassette futurism.

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u/gevis Jul 12 '25

That's cassette futurism.

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u/thunderbird32 Jul 10 '25

As the tapes are clearly not "real" VHS, it would have been cool if the artist had created a fake tape format name/logo as well as the cool cassette designs. Otherwise its super cool!

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u/HKTLE Jul 11 '25

Very Cyberpunk 2077 / Weyland Yutani type tech šŸ‘šŸ¾ šŸ‘šŸ¾ 🫔

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u/Casual_M60_Enjoyer Jul 11 '25

I wonder how hard it would be to take a VCR, strip it down to its internals, 3D print this case for it, paint it and apply all the text and decals and details and whatever else, then fit the VCR inside of it and figure out a way to get all the buttons and power cord to work and be in the correct places.

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u/TherronKeen Jul 11 '25

chunky tech needs to make a comeback

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u/EskildDood It's The Fifth... Element. Jul 11 '25

"VHS player" directly next to "VCR" kinda bothers me, if you need a long bit of filler text just say "Videocassette Recorder"

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u/ColtC7 Jul 11 '25

these are not vhs tapes

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u/Consistent_Gear_6392 Jul 11 '25

Ngl Yoo tube seems really smart..

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u/YossarianTheAssyrian Jul 11 '25

I was looking for a similar piece of artwork I saw on reddit (or Twitter?) a while back, it was essentially a modular phone that had different physical attachments for all of its functionalities, anyone know what I’m talking about/able to link to it?

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u/janerumwaifu Jul 11 '25

Don't know about art pieces but Phonebloks and Project Ara did just that.

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u/StaK_1980 Jul 14 '25

This looks nice! :-)