Trinity Mount Barker

In a few weeks I'm giving a talk on "Technology, Connectedness and the Christian Life."  In preparation, I've been doing some reading on how different people use various aspects of technology to communicate the gospel of Jesus.

On the website of Global Recordings Network, I came across something that I saw first-hand more than 20 years ago and which ever since I've struggled to convince people actually exists!

It's the "Card Talk" cardboard record player, pictured at right. Back around 1989 we discovered one out the back of our school library. Initially we couldn't work out what this strange piece of folded carboard was and why it had a needle attached to one end, but the fact that there was a vinyl record with the cardboard suggested this was in fact a record player! 

Sure enough, we placed the record on the eyelet on the cardboard, folded the end of the carboard so that the needle rested on the record and when we spun the record, we could hear the sound!  The vibrations of the needle were amplified by the 'baffle' of cardboard and we could clearly understand the spoken word recording.

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