(Photo: Levi Brown)

G.E.’s new compact cassette player includes a microphone that lets you record your own voice ($25).

(Photo: Levi Brown)

Garrard’s new 301 turntable has an ingenious flywheel motor system that makes the platter impervious to needle friction ($500).

(Photo: Levi Brown)

Ettore Sottsass is a design master; his prototype “Nefertiti” desk will be a Madison Avenue staple when it goes on sale later this year (he says).