Looking to convert your old vinyl to a format your iPod can understand? Sharper Image’s iPod Turntable will help you archive your old LPs to MP3 that your iPod or iPhone can read, no middle-man computer required (although it is an option through USB).
I’m guessing it just saves the files to your iPod or iPhone for importing into iTunes later, since I don’t think a third-party accessory can squirt music files directly into iOS’ iTunes database for you. That makes this a pretty negligible timesaver, especially for the price of $199.99, but hell, I don’t know: I’m from the generation that has never purchased a vinyl album without irony.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
