Retsy Series 1 · Card 0226 · 80-TEC
Your own soundtrack, clipped to your hip.
A belt-clip cassette player with lime foam headphones and a rewind button that sounded like a tiny jet engine.
The story · 1983
Jogwave pitched it to joggers, but mostly it rode school buses. The foam earpads came in a color best described as tennis ball, and they crumbled by spring. Pressing play and record together let you tape the radio, so every kid owned a cassette full of songs missing their first three seconds.
A pencil jammed in the spool hole rewound tapes faster than the button and saved precious double-A batteries.
Six finishes
Jogwave Pocket Deck comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-TEC
Jogwave Pocket Deck is one of 32 cards in the 80s Tech & Gadgets set. Here are the other 31.
