Teenage Engineering Record Factory

This looks fun. It’s a combination vinyl record player (that’s the arm on the right) and record cutter (that’s the arm on the left). It can cut five-inch disks that last three minutes at high speed (45rpm) and four minutes at low speed (33rpm). You feed it audio input via a line-in connection and it cuts a groove in a blank disk that you can then play back on any record player. It’s not a Teenage Engineering design. Search ebay for “record cutting toy” and you’ll find the same thing in a different box.

The sound quality will be horrible, but every recording will be unique and perhaps great fun. I suppose you can think of it as the audio equivalent of the instant pictures that I like playing with, but I’m not going to be getting one unless I become silly rich. And anyway, they seem to have sold out…