Just to follow up the portable, electricity-free turntable I noted this past weekend, Steve Roden (artist, musician, and tireless archivist of fascinating music- and sound-related ephemera) points out that the design has been around for many a year:
Here’s the subject of my original post (disquiet.com):
Roden’s full post (“when new things are actually old…”), with numerous images, at inbetweennoise.blogspot.com.