iPhone turntable concept brings dropped calls on your record collection

Any audiophile worth their weight in 180 gram vinyl will gladly let you know that nothing sounds quite nearly as good as a record . Unfortunately, the format has a number of major drawbacks, like an absence of portability and the indisputable fact that it really sucks at making phone calls. The iPhone, then again, is light years in advance of those fronts — well, one in all out two ain’t bad. This new concept from designer Olivier Meynard offers the very best of both worlds, embedding a horizontal iPhone dock next to a wheel of steel, so that you can play back your favorite LP in the course of the built-in speakers and encode those tracks as MP3s, that are uploaded in your handset because it charges. Finally, how to turn your long out of print prog rock albums into ringtones, as they were meant to be heard .

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