Vinyl gramophone records to usb and SD or MMC

Living in Prague i didn’t really expect to find a technical gadget that i never seen or heard about before in my local grocery store!

Today it happned! I found a gramophone that is able to copy the a record in MP3 or WMA format directly to USB, SD or MMC flash. It also have a built in AM/FM radio and amplifier and loudspeakers. Strange little thing, that seems perfect for those who want to convert their old pieces of plastic to something more modern.

What suprised me even more is that Aftonbladet (A major Swedish newspaper) wrote about a similar product today here. Much more expensive (with less features) than the Czech product i found. The Ion “LP 2 flash” apparently costs 1600 SEK and the Czech product SMARTON costs 1999 CZK (118 USD, 66 GBP or 790 SEK.) wich is approx. half the price quite a bargain in my opinion.

Ill try to dig up a link for the product so check back in a little bit for updates.

(And if anyone wants one drop me an email and i’ll see what it would cost to ship it to you.)

And naturally, if you have any experience of any of these products please give us some feedback in the comments section below.