Playaway : The audiobook players that smartphones couldn’t kill

In 2006 the world was introduced to the Playaway - an all-in-one audiobook player, where each device held a single pre-loaded book which could not be swapped out. It seems inevitable that this would be another of those single-use gadgets replaced by the yet in 2022 the Playaway lives on. In this video you’ll see a demo and discover how and why it survived. Here’s a link to a teardown - it turns out the audio format isn’t MP3 after all - ------------- Merchandise ----------------- Updated Techmoan Merchandise is now available. --------------- SUBSCRIBE ------------------ ------------- SUPPORT --------------- This channel can be supported through Patreon *******Patrons usually have early access to videos******* ---------- Outro Music ----------- Over Time