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Playaway ： The audiobook players that smartphones couldn't kill (2022x20)

Air date: May 21, 2022

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 smartphone...and yet in 2022 the Playaway lives on. In this video you'll see a demo and discover how and why it survived.