Talking Tape.



Talking tape

To “play” the recordings on the talking tapes, simply scratch it with your fingernails:

One method is to hold one end of the strip between your teeth. Then, when you run your nail along the strip you hear it talk, but no-one else does. Or you can stick one end of the strip to an inflated balloon or a paper cup using sticky tape. The balloon or cup acts as an amplifier, and you can then demonstrate it to anyone nearby. Never heard a balloon talk?

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Posted on January 7, 2007 at 2:56 pm by yayo
Category: Gadget, Toy & Video Games

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5 comments to "Talking Tape."

  • Stack
    January 7th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    At Oglebay Resort in West Virginia, they sell these in a gift shop. They are attached to a paper cup. When you run your fingers down them, it says “Merry Christmas!”.

  • Billy
    January 7th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    About 30 years ago, a friend of mine got a birthday card that had a strip in it that said “Happy Birthday” when you ran your thumbnail along it.

  • MrPumpernickel
    January 8th, 2007 at 1:34 am

    Yeah, these were really common a few decades ago but has become an item of obscurity lately. Would be pretty neat to see them making a comeback though, especially in this day and age of electronic devices inside everything. Lowtech 4 life!

  • TonyH
    January 8th, 2007 at 11:46 am

    I dimly recall a few years back, a set of these with “famous quotes” recorded on them being given away in packs of breakfast cereal. “One small step for man”, that sort of stuff.

  • chris
    January 9th, 2007 at 2:13 am

    I had a teenage mutant ninja turtle that had something like this you put the red strips into a hole in the side of the turtle’s shell and the ’shell’ was the speaker, one of the saying was Cowabunga. i also made these strips work with the fingernail approach

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