"Your Majesty, this is our new generation of radio cassette recorder. Its weight has been brought down to between 518 and 521 grams—only one-third that of the previous generation. Its dimensions—length, width, and height—are 28.5 cm × 18.5 cm × 9.5 cm, less than half the volume of the previous generation.
This is a technological advance that spans an era for the radio cassette recorder industry. There is no comparable product anywhere in the world.
Now it can be easily picked up with one hand, making it convenient for everyone to carry around and listen to broadcasts or play music anytime, anywhere.
Its production cost is about 78 Lev, and it can be lowered further after mass production. We plan to release it in February. It will come with five boxes of tapes and be offered in three editions: standard, deluxe, and luxury, with projected prices of 199 Lev, 299 Lev, and 999 Lev respectively..." Schubert explained.
Ferdinand merely smiled and nodded, offering no comment. For this era, it truly was an extraordinary technological advance.
The radio cassette recorders currently on the market were usually hulking things weighing over ten jin. Even one weighing more than three jin was already considered a deluxe model of the previous generation.
Limited by the technological standards of the time, shrinking the size without raising production costs was no easy feat.
Ever since the 1930s, the center of global technological innovation had shifted from Western Europe to the Balkan Peninsula. Ferdinand could proudly say that Bulgaria was now leading humanity's technological progress.
With no competition from the United States or Germany, while Britain and France were obsessed with the financial industry and had now leapt headfirst into the vast pit of real estate, it would have been difficult for Bulgaria not to become the