Your iPhone has one main advantage over the slim iPod touch – it is capable of making and receiving phone calls, while letting you keep in touch with the rest of your family and friends without missing a beat. Of course, with enough storage space inside, it too, can function as an iPod touch, boasting iPod functionality while playing back all of your favorite tunes. The iPod being the modern, 21st century Walkman would then do well to remember its roots – for without the humble cassette, the music industry would not have evolved to what it is today, where tunes are stored as bits and bytes instead of on a magnetic tape.

What better way to pay tribute to the old school cassette than with a protective case for the iPhone that resembles such? Retailing for a mere $3.49 each, this is one of the more interesting novelty designs that you will come across, where it was specially shaped to fit your favorite iPhone. Since it is made out of premium silicon material, you can be sure that your spanking new handset is not going to slip right out of your fingers anytime soon. We just hope that no one will actually mistake this for an actual cassette and try to pry out the non-existent magnetic tape, scratching your iPhone’s display badly in the process…