RetroTech - The Panapic (???)

[@Derevirn]

The design is quite modern, considering it's 40 years old. It almost looks like a bluetooth speaker.

[@coydog7902]

I thought it was actually a Bluetooth speaker

[@thugasaurusrex6004]

Derevirn yea that's what I was thinking xD it looks like a Bluetooth speaker

[@michaelmartin9022]

The company ought to bring out a Bluetooth speaker with the same design for nostalgia. Maybe including an SD slot and the songs it originally came with too, as well as reduced versions of the books.

[@dontmesswiththeman]

Derevirn just plug a phone into the mic input and it basically is!

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

I thought it was a 1970s Amazon Echo. "Alexa, play Engelbert Humperdinck"

[@santa_pepsi]

At first I thought it was some kind of rotating device to take PANoramic PICtures.

[@c7uk]

Mato da Costa - me too

[@NateZ6]

I guess it's because it's made by Panasonic. Not sure what it has to do about pictures though...

Same here.

[@garethwilliams5809]

Same here

[@TheCaptnHammer]

Same here! Then I thought maybe it was a speaker and microphone that recorded sound when attached to an accompanying camera so you can play ambient noise from a scenic photo location.

[@GRIMEREPORTTV]

This is nuts for how old it is

[@gamblemadman]

Haha, me neither.

[@TheRealUnconnected]

The Industrial designs seems more like the 1990s than the 1970s.

[@jasper-fn7zc]

haha yes lordie!

[@rockolutheran]

Wag1

[@Yngwiejmalmsteen08]

Man like Lordie watching techmoan 👍👍

[@tcphll]

It looks remarkably modern. At first glance, I'd have thought it was a cheap Bluetooth speaker.

[@reeseyme9613]

*"all the best stuff is made in japan"* --marty mcfly, 1990

[@reeseyme9613]

my AIWA portable cassette recorder still works today even it has been over 20yrs

[@treespunk]

@@Tadfafty 1985 Marty said that in 1955 to 1955 Doc who then gave an authentic 1955 expression

[@bartobruintjes7056]

NO!

[@foxtrotkilomike]

"Hey Panapic, whats the weather today"

[@cdigames]

As soon as you showed the underside of the speaker I had assumed it was high quality photos with audio captured on-site as a sort of immersive experience.

[@ValentinGalea]

lol me too!

[@goishikaiganmademou]

It is stuck on this phrase: 7:32 使い方では、・・・ = tsukai-kata de wa, ... = About how to use, ...

[@LeminskiTankscor]

All said, it looks quite modern for a device from 1977.

[@michaeltrabtree7718]

My first thought was that it looked like a fairly cheap aux speaker you'd get at radioshack in the late 90s. Surprising design for 77.

[@LeminskiTankscor]

I like it, a lot. It makes me think of a Bluetooth Speaker or something. Wonder if we could pop it under a 45? Probably too wide :(

[@LeminskiTankscor]

Oh and the plastic wrap. Good as the day it left the factory. Beautiful. That said, the book makes it for me. So romantic for the time.

[@checktheevidence]

Splendid. That's one for the record books! ;)

[@IDFK303]

Record. Books. I see what you did there, and I'm a little bit jealous.

[@shkeni]

LOL

[@joeyboyjoeyboy2]

Get out !

[@stewartcampbell7794]

Absolutely-4sure.Good on-ya...

[@jfcash84]

Very punny.

[@MroStudios]

I'm always shocked by the quality of the plastics from the '70s. Those things were made to last.

[@MrIcecolddd]

Seriously impressed by the photos in that book more than anything. The quality is superb and the way they’ve been taken, they wouldn’t be out of place in some “Arty” magazine in 2020

[@TheCheat420]

I saw "Panapic" and a book of photos assumed it took panoramic pictures.

[@etmccaus]

Me too; figured it was some sort of motorized tripod head...

[@kurtjerichodelacruz2370]

Same.

[@SlyPearTree]

I thought it was a projector.

[@BertGrink]

My first thought was that it might be some sort of panoramic projector hehe

[@alasyon]

Hahaha same, I thought I was very clever by guessing it within a second, but no, was completely wrong.

[@FitzFingers]

9:00 gotta love the little rainbow of death in the bottom right corner

[@favoritemustard3542]

LJN aka Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts

[@lucsirotouka]

I'm from China, and when I was a child I've seen a similar device in the home of one of my classmates, who lived in a wealthy family. It's the same combination, a hard-covered picture book (larger though), and a hand-held device. Inside that book there were the same plastic discs, and with the hand-held device put on that disc, it reads the story on that page. Used to think the sound was stored magnetically on the disc like floppy disks, but after watching video I believe it could be the same concentric circles technology.

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Touka Lucsiro It's a spiral (one long spiral from beginning to end). Concentric circles are best for random jumping around with precision mechanics (like computer discs, except the CD/DVD which are based on audio-video spirals).

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Touka Lucsiro This is basically how phonographic records are made. Vibration on grooves allow for sound to be reproduced through a player like that to play records on.

[@Loonistrator]

I reckon a little cleaning/lubing of whatever mechanism the stylus moves along would clear up that skipping problem. I thought 'camera or viewer of some sort' as well. Very interesting curio. There's something delightfully tactile about records.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

When the player was stuck and he slapped it, I laughed. I almost expected it to say after being slapped "domo arigato!"

[@NikhileshNerambally]

I expected the Panapic to say, "Ouchhu! sore wa itai!"

[@AnOfficialAndrewFloyd]

Percussive Maintenance!

[@rich1051414]

Gomen de sumeba, keisatsu iranai!

[@DieWeltIstSchlecht]

That thing is 40 years old.... I genuinely thought up until the end this was a modern gimmick and was wandering why there wasn't a USB connector.

[@farhanatashiga3721]

How could you still have that thought 'till the end? He literally said at the beginning it's from 1977 🤦‍♂️

[@doubtful_seer]

@@farhanatashiga3721 no need to be condescending, unless that’s how you like people treating you when you don’t hear or miss one detail.

[@e28forever30]

@@doubtful_seer One detail … Matt mentioned “the seventies “, “1976” and “1977” several times…

[@mrmeow3924]

That is probably the most charming piece of technology I have ever seen ;)

[@KianaKaslana638]

*7:51* sounds vaporwave-like lo-fi music..... ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃａｌｌｙ　ａｐｐｅａｌｉｎｇ　ｔｏ　ｍｙ　ｅａｒｓ .

[@timmorrissey1607]

I want that music soundtrack desperately.

[@MattHayesVinyl]

What an interesting device! It reminds me of scanning a QR code but, instead of using a phone, you use the Panapic, place it over one of the discs, and voila.

[@RetroCore]

I'm sure someone may have mentioned this but National is Panasonic's home brand. So basically anything like lights, fridges and other home electrical devices that are not A/V come out under the National name. Even now they do. :) all the light switches in my house are National as is the doorbell :)

[@technobrend0]

Ahh I knew I recognized it before but I didn't know it was their home brand. I figured they just went be Matsushita

[@marcussantos2141]

That's weird, I had a National tv back in the 80s. In Brazil of all places.

[@moreapurva]

Same, I had a TV and a boombox by National bought locally in India. This was in the 90s.

[@RetroCore]

Senpai Kei surprisingly they don't release products under the Matsushita name or at least not for general public consumption. In the past (80s) there were TVs and such with the National branding but they soon decided to go with Panasonic for all their A/V stuff. I think now they may even use the Panasonic name for fridges and Microwaves although my Fridge say National since its about 10 years old.

[@RetroCore]

Marcus Santos yes, that's probably about right. In the 80s Matsushita did use the National brand on TVs and music equipment. This trend was replaced by the Panasonic name during the 90s as it had a stronger brand appearance.

[@BM1DAS601]

Stunning! Here in Germany similar technology was used to boost the BERTELSMANN LEXIKOTHEK encyclopedia to a multimedia experience. There were some of the books provided with engraved foils and a similar kind of player could be dropped on them so you could hear the sound of historical recordings. As a young lad I found that highly innovative. Was in the early 90s when I remember correctly. My brother-in-law keeps a collection of that encyclopedia so I can enjoy this retro tech from time to time.

[@cmonkey63]

The suspense was killing me! Ha ha. Nice one. Another amazing analogue moment.

[@Pillowcase]

this is one of my favourite things you've covered.

[@onedeadsaint]

wow! this is a really cool device! absolutely love it!

[@theLuigiFan0007Productions]

Same. I also think it's a really cool idea. The idea of putting little records in a book is a really interesting invention. I wonder if anyone has digitized all the recordings. o:

[@ucitymetalhead]

When I heard that it was Japanese and has a microphone input some little part of my brain thought karaoke.

[@freesaxon6835]

And...... You were right !

[@rolfs2165]

Same here. Then he showed the book with the pictures and records and I thought it was ambient sounds for meditation. When it played music instead, I was completely lost.

[@vanishingpoint2658]

Ms, too!🙂🎙

[@sircompo]

Terrific! How many more obscure and fascinating gadgets are there out there for Techmoan to showcase? Seems there can't be much left!

[@Loopcats]

I think that every time he uploads a retro-tech video and then he manages to find something new to amaze us. :)

[@RuneInternational]

Dave Compton you Sound so like the guy who wanted to close the patent Office in early 1900's, because there was no way, more stuff could be invented.

[@sircompo]

Rune International - I just wasn't clear; I was referring to retro tech, not new inventions. Wasn't really serious either; it's clear Techmoan has an innate ability to sniff out vintage gadgets and obscure formats. Let the Muppetry continue ad infinitum.

[@RuneInternational]

Dave Compton I know, but my point was, that every day from that quote more than hundred years ago, people have created junk world wide. There is sadly no way techmoan will ever run out. And in 30 years he can show todays junk

[@sircompo]

Rune International - Awesome thought; all presented on KZbin VR™ and watched by billions as they commute on the global hyperloop network.

[@qinop]

What an absolutely gorgeous and aesthetic lofi marvel. Meshing physical and digital media flawlessly

[@AltayGENC]

A fantastic old (paper) & new (stylus) technology combination. I'm fascinated with this little cute device. These technologies let you interract with them. 07:25 as an example : hit and correct :D

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

That is so interesting, and just think, it has been over 40 years since that lady's voice was recorded for the instructions. I can't help imagine all the people involved with designing, building, and even buying/using this device. So very interesting.

[@Christopher-N]

I was kind of expecting the Outro Music to get stuck before the end like the Panapic discs, just as a little joke. :P I did sit through the puppet joke, though. It was like watching a more sophisticated closing joke from The Vicar of Dibley. I enjoyed the punchline.

[@chroniclesofbap6170]

Was convinced it was a 360-degree camera

[@Honeybearsphone]

Don't know why anyone would not like the puppets I look forward to them at the end of every episode, it's a bit humour after watching a great informative video and caps it off nicely

[@kbhasi]

I agree! I also enjoy the puppet show.

[@keiyakins]

I like 'em too, and if I'm not in the mood for them I can always close the video a little early.

[@2small4theMall]

Ethan Ansell hasn't it always been like that

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

but it's all true! Go to any gadget website to see it.

[@s_SoNick]

Normally they're p. good, but they were a bit shite this time after a great and informative video.

[@luverizimo2597]

That was a state of the art technology it was way ahead for his time, I wonder techoman grandkids will un open a ipod and do a review in 2070

[@eminaonko6728]

This brings back some memories.. My friends dad had a whole encyclopedia (several books in dutch) that had a similar device with wich one could hear explainations, sounds and other stuff. I can't recall what it was called, but it might be worth your while to look into. Might aswell be there was an English version of it too.

[@oliverweyhmuller2775]

Yes, I remember that such an encyclopedia was available in Germany too at that time. Although the playback device was not as good as the Panapic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnywiH-MlJqgirs

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Emina Đonko Don't suppose Matsushita licensed out this technilogy to other companies for their devices?

[@pev_]

The instruction disk woman: "nationaru panapikku" :) :) Oh my that made me laugh.

[@jdsoldger2]

I had a kids version of this that read books sold here in the US back in the 90's. I always thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[@thebachelordj]

I lolled at ‘big fan of Smeg’...blame the Red Dwarf fan in me

[@sixstringedthing]

I still have my Y2SMEG t-shirt, but sadly its condition is not really good enough to allow repping the boys from the Dwarf in public any longer.

[@SupahLinkio]

@@sixstringedthing Surely that's more authentic to Lister's style though, right? How many curry stains does it have?

[@TripleEye_Josh]

I'm dying to see some behind the scenes footage of Techmoan filming the puppet parts. He's always so professional, imagine seeing him bent under a table with his hand up some puppet's ass doing silly voices. That doesn't sound weird, right?

[@Jamato-sUn]

Josh Griffiths nah. some people do it for a living

[@NikhileshNerambally]

Your comment needs to be upvoted so that Mat would read it.

[@eclipsedbadger]

It would be weird in the middle of the night at 2am, but nah...its like Ashens, you don't expect them to act silly but they do

[@andriealinsangao613]

Josh Griffiths Man, I was so looking forward to that!!

[@CaptainPackrat]

I had something like this as a kid. It was called the Fisher-Price Talk-To-Me Player. There were several books that had record-like disks on each page and you'd place the battery-powered player on top and it would read the page. One of the books I had was Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss.

[@FerHivore]

7:23 - _A 40-YEAR-OLD MACHINE THAT MAKES VAPORWAVE?!_

[@verdatum]

....You got me. I lol'd

[@InflatablePlane]

V I N T A G E. A E S T H E T I C

[@explosionsindasky]

Kind of a Avant-garde Vaporwave tho.

[@Kardor]

4:32 This song in Korean version is called "쯔가루해협의 겨울풍경", Japanese name is "津軽海峡冬景色". It can be translated as "Winter landscape of Tsugaru strait" and was performed by Pochonbo Electronic Orchestra of North Korea.

[@vernonzehr]

Not sure why but this is one of my favorite crazy gizmos from your site. You always find odd music stuff but DANG, I would have wanted one of these back in the day. I think I was in junior high school back then so probably never could have gotten one and since getting proprietary stuff from Japan in the 70's isn't like it is now it wouldn't have been likely either. p.s. WOOOHOOO! The puppets are back! Sorry I forget their names and I'm way too lazy to figure them out right now. Those puppets ALWAYS feel EXACTLY the same about stuff as I do. Amazing. It's like they crawled into my head and are rummaging around in there for content.

[@hirokurobane9145]

Pretty advanced and highly miniaturized considering its 40 years old, music also puts stuff on the vibe.

[@neonte13]

I bet something is physically adding resistance or the motor's a bit knackered or summat. If it was easy to take apart, it could be a reasonable project, but if I had to guess I'd bet it's not. Really neat little thing, though! Sometimes I wonder how you even find out about about this stuff.

[@korokshiding]

The music sounds like it's straight off the Kill Bill soundtrack. What a cool little gadget! Very creative idea

[@lmjohnsono]

This would be awesome as an educational multimedia tool. Pitty it never took off. Perhaps in an alternate universe...

[@mcrazza]

I didn’t know National made other products outside of the kitchen. My parents still have National kitchen appliances from the early to mid-80s. Gotta love that National font too!

[@triandika6902]

mcrazza National is Panasonic now

[@EvertGuzman]

Tri Andika It has always been, National is the name the that Panasonic goes by in Japan.

[@jamesslick4790]

Panasonic's (National) slogan for years was "Just slightly ahead of our time", Indeed, they often were!👍

[@Moodie111]

The tracks starting at 4:11, 4:33 and 9:57 reminded me quite a bit of the types of songs the Ventures used to play during their Japanese period (they were very popular in Japan). But then, they were doing their best to sound "Japanese" at the time, playing Japanese tunes softly in a "ballad-like" style. Very nice music, some my favorite Ventures songs were done in that style. They released more than a few LPs (later re-released as double-CDs) of this kind of music.

[@DeerShit01]

FYI (information of song titles and singers) 4:11 Yokohama Tasogare (lit. Yokohama twilight) originally sung by Hiroshi ITSUKI 4:33 Tsugaru Kaikyo Fuyu Geshiki (lit. Winter scape of Tsugaru Straight) by Sayuri ISHIKAWA 9:57 Nagasaki ha Kyou mo Ame datta (lit. It rains again in Nagasaki Today) by Hiroshi UCHIYAMADA and Cool Five these all songs belong to Enka (演歌) category.

[@alanburns538]

Techmoan at his finest! Gorgeous piece of retro-tech (want one!!!) with an inspired slow-reveal, and the funniest puppet dialogue yet. You, sir, are the Emperor Of KZbin.

[@wellesradio]

Oh my god, I’ve never actually wanted you’ve showcased on this channel before, but I want this! Maybe it’s because I did have one of those toys as a kid.

[@djindustrialcomplex]

Techmoan's good enough to be on TV late at night.

[@ringsystemmusic]

Doug Chase Just strange enough for interdimensional cable tbh

[@JeanLouisBourdon]

TV is not good enough for Techmoan though

[@markcleveland8898]

While I admire your Kirkland batteries from Costco, you should give Eneloops a go. Best rechargeable batteries I've ever used, by far.

[@presterjohn71]

Well, this is a treat. I rarely catch them this early!

[@seanmaxwell3319]

It’s the nice plastic from yesteryear! The real heavy 8-ball feeling stuff. My grandmother has a bunch of doo-dads made from that

[@AroundIndiana]

I had something like this as a kid in the 80s called Fisher Price Talk to Me but it looked different. The books were kid stories, and you put the device one each page and it would read the story. The premise was the same, but the device was more clear and you could see the needle spinning inside.

[@DonOblivious]

My grandparents had one of those. The clear bit had an aligning ring to make it easier to get into place which looks to be a bit of a problem with this device. On the other hand, this Panapic looks positively modern compared to the Talk-To-Me.

[@chrissyria2376]

Thank you - I was thinking of exactly the same toy, and I couldn't find *anything* searching things like "childrens book with record" or "children book flexisheet". This thing was awesome! Easily one of the toys I remember most from being a little kid.

[@DonOblivious]

Hah! I searched basically the same terms before hitting on "record playing toy book" image search.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

Yes, thank you! I had those as a kid, too. A quick KZbin search shows the same one I had being demonstrated.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

ReviewsTechNow Yep, I had one of these as a kid! I recall it being used with kid books they sold.

[@pulsefel9210]

interesting idea for an album. each page being its own song would give you plenty of room for art, lyrics, etc.

[@lorddenti]

Somebody should release an Album on this format!

[@jjjoshiii6659]

each song is one disc genius

[@Tadesan]

This is so cool. I bet a lot of people had a really really fun time using these. :)

[@MrWombatty]

Maybe that voice at about the 7:30 mark translates as; "Sorry squire, I've scratched your record....Sorry squire, I've scratched your record.....Sorry squire, I've scratched your record....." ?

[@donwald3436]

MrWombatty Sorry squire, it says "how to use" like it's going to give you instructions.

[@MrWombatty]

Don Wald, you're obviously too young for the Monty-Python joke reference!

[@donwald3436]

MrWombatty Obviously 🙄

[@Brillemeister]

I will not buy this picture book; it is scratched.

[@donwald3436]

Brillemeister Know what I mean?

[@Quacks0]

The microphone that had been included with the machine might have been a crystal or carbon-granule mike that produced its own signal like a ceramic phono cartridge does, as opposed to a magnetic cartridge or dynamic mike, which works by varying resistance from a pre-amp signal. This may be why your mike didn't seem to work with it, since it was probably a modern-day dynamic mike that uses a coil and magnet. Probably the machine's cartridge is also a ceramic type that produces its own signal using the piezo effect, and so the machine did not need a pre-amp to hear the sound, and thus the mike was probably the same kind of "self-powered" component that connected to the same circuitry on the amplifier as the cartridge was connected to.

[@Buurazu]

"You must be a big fan of smeg" woah wait what

[@15743_Hertz]

Actually, Apple Smegphone does have a nice ring to it. ("Ring", geddit?)

[@lightdark00]

Red dwarf never copyrighted "smeg"? What smegging smegheads!

[@toposebi95]

Blazephlozard smeg's a brand of fridges made to look retro

[@nexgenhippy]

+lightdark00 i think Red Dwarf got it from the word 'smegma'.

[@Buurazu]

why would they name their brand after the shorthand for dickcheese

[@ciaranleoghann5879]

My grandparents in France had something similar, it was an encyclopaedia, we used a little player like this one to hear some speeches, comments, along with the articles on the encyclopaedia's pages. It was neat !

[@weirdotzero7065]

Man, if I was an entrepreneur in the 1970s. I would've probably made this like it's own audio format to compete with 8 Track or cassette. I would've probably lost the format war, but still. Would've been cool.

[@DONK8008]

They could have partnered up with Nissan and Toyota and had exclusive albums on the dashboards of the new cars at the time.

[@laura-lydia7610]

well, that wouldv'e probably failed without A LOT of engineering since records are so finicky

[@GeoNeilUK]

On the plus side, you could be collecting millions in trademarks loyalties from Amazon over the word "Audiobook"

[@WorldwideWyatt]

It could only work for singles because of how small the discs are and singles died out when Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released.

[@mr.summerset8054]

WeirdoTZero 8-track was better at the time

[@evansn79]

I would have believed this was a brand new thing designed to go along with a nice art book.

[@Cylume.]

After a few sake, you wont care that it skips on every song.

[@tylerk6206]

This is what I love the most about your channel. Exploring the old ghosts of long forgotten tech. I would have never known such a unique and aesthetically pleasing device ever existed. Thank you for putting the time + effort + money into this, I really appreciate it.

[@JoelHudson]

New meaning to "Record Album" ey?

[@TheFlameeyes]

This reminded me of something my mum has, back in Italy (and managed to take a few pictures of, if you're interested for more details I can provide them): an 80s encyclopedia with similar plastic inserts, that included spoken word recordings, and a very similar device to play them back, although made in West Germany. My mother has two of those devices, but as we checked last week, one of them may have been destroyed by alkaline batteries leak :(

[@TimperialBroadcastingAgency]

*hears 1970s Japanese pop instrumentals* [[[MACROSS FLASHBACKS INTENSIFY]]]

[@Tomsonic41]

There was a very similar device released in the US, essentially a read-along storybook but the records were mounted on the page rather than being a separate tape or record. Works exactly the same as this; I believe it was called the Comes to Life and the device was a StoryPlayer; it works on exactly the same principle as this Panasonic device.

[@JuanHerrero]

I am thinking you could print the branding and design of the device in a mug, including the DC and audio jacks..

[@CeruleanChurch]

Those songs just reek of the Showa Era. I love it.

[@zillsburyy1]

old japanese electronics are KING!!!!

[@bx19tgd]

So are old Japanese cars (I love any skyline) (ANY SKYLINE)

[@blauerblubb]

Bertelsmann has sold a lot of encyclopedias in Germany with these types of records, especially in the mid-80s. I've seen a few of the ones that focus on Germany for sale on eBay, the set I am referring to is called "Deutschland - Unser Jahrhundert in Wort Bild und Ton"

[@theJellyjoker]

0:46 radio? 1:55 Karaoke speaker? 3:08 mini-record player! That music is very Japanese.

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

That was pretty genius, cleverly thought out

[@RicoElectrico]

Nashonaru Panapikku! :D

[@Popk1ller]

A almost Similar device can be found in the "Bertelsmann Lexikothek" a big set of encyclopedia books in Germany. It was called the "phonobox" you place it on special Pages on these books and it plays the audible content there.

[@leo37ok]

Was anyone else reminded of Kill Bill at around 06:00?

[@StarWarsJay]

I’ve looked all over for one of these. Well done getting one, especially in the box.

[@olvi007]

4:45 I was expecting Meiko Kaji to start singing at any moment now.

[@ohyesweKen]

The music from 4:33 is "Tsugaru Kaikyou Fuyugeshiki" by Ishikawa Sayuri. it's actually a nice karaoke song

[@666M4GG07666]

my guess was a combination speaker/slow-cooker.

[@WardancerHB]

I remember that in the early 90s we had history books with those flexidiscs in them and a player you put on them. Every decade was one issue. There were original recordings from the time you could listen to while reading an article about it. As a kid I friggin' loved it!

[@raymondleggs5508]

The origin of the bluetooth speaker :-D

[@thanthanasiszamp4707]

U.S.A and Europe: You place the vinyl on the player. Japan: You place the the player on the vinyl.

[@j-man6001]

04:13 Sounds like a Sergio Leone western! haha

[@noirceur_]

Or something Tarantino would have used in Kill Bill. Definitely had that very Japanese Flow/Spaghetti Western vibe.

[@aljr357]

I love the puppets at the end of a lot of your videos. I would love to see a whole channel dedicated to these puppets but I do understand that it’s hard to film the puppets on a consistent basis with all the work that goes into filming and editing and then there’s writing a storyline and having help with the puppets so they can be filmed together in a scene.

[@andrewlittleboy8532]

Would be interesting to cut out one of the records and play it on a record player.

[@michaelcebulski4916]

This reminds me of a children’s device I had as a child. Some sort of Fischer Price thing where you had a book (I think) where you them lined up a player over top of a playable section and it worked like a record player in reverse. I can still remember the feeling of moving the device about until it just slightly caught on the center hole to make sure it was aligned for playing. Wonder if they got the idea from this. Would have been around 1980.

[@drrider]

Brilliant design! That's a fantastic machine for karaoke from 40+ years ago.

[@MarkTinberg]

This is honestly amazing, it looks thoroughly modern and would not be out of place next to a Google or Amazon appliance, it's gorgeous, and aside from problems reaching the end of the tracks, which might just be due to the age of the mechanism, it basically does what it needs to do beautifully. Such a fun little machine.

[@Mattytime]

I always stay for the puppets.

[@Wassenhoven420]

Never!

[@FiendTheKing]

I feel like if in 1976 if they had released this in the US, but instead of a book they released songs in self contained 'bottom lids' like the included one it could have been a portable music player.

[@DPortain]

Today's price: between $133 and $150, depending which country's inflation rate you use.

[@tomokokuroki2506]

I had one of these when I was 3. Mine was different, though. It was rectangular and had a clear section where you could see the needle spinning around. After I got bored with the book, I tried to play the walls and carpet with it. It broke. My parents were mad. I had fun.