#HTE

Audio Cassette Tape Pool Floats

LÔTELI is a brand name trademarked in 2018, for the purpose of selling empty cosmetics bags. But the entrepreneurs behind it, Laura Dorson and Nathalie De Clercq, quickly found a more lucrative use for transparent PVC: Novelty pool floats.

Their $60 Classic Cassette is a pretty faithful representation of what we carried around in our Walkmen in the ‘80s, though it measures 50" x 75":

For those who prefer an opaque model, there’s their $50 Mix Tape:

The first one is obviously a Maxell-inspired design, but I can’t recall who made tapes that looked like the second variant.

Either will surely make helicopter pilots do a double-take.