I feel like I missed out, because I never got to give my best girl a mixtape of all the Norah Jones and Counting Crows songs I felt described our relationship. Instead, we’d listen to an iPod with one earbud each, which of course is adorable, thank you, but somehow doesn’t seem to measure up.

Milktape captures the essence of giving someone music you enjoy in the modern age, in a way emailing a playlist just doesn’t. It’s just a cassette-shaped USB drive, but has the sort of retro charm vinyl records and handlebar mustaches evoke.

What sets it apart from other USB drives is that it’s customizable and rewrite-able, so it can be both a keepsake and a shareable device, in the same way the original tape cassettes were.

What Sparks Our Fire: Revisiting old-style technology in a new-world way.

Would you give a Milktape to your significant other?