Retro Gadgets
Face it – we all sound like our parents. With the “I remember when” and “those were so cool” references you would think we would rather live in the past. Gadget makers everywhere know this and build plenty of Retro Gadgets for us to relive the glory days. Tune in here to get a blast from the past with today’s gadgetry.
Look Your 8-Bit Best
Sure, technology moves at a quick pace these days. New phones and tablets come out weekly. But that does not mean you have to throw away the past. Expressing our true love of all things techy yet retro means we can acknowledge our geekiness of today while paying homage to tech roots of yesteryear. Big Big Pixel features some tech accessories from product designer Mike Mak that will do exactly that.
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Thump Through Your Day
Remember your first boombox? Did you have the one with the removable speakers? Maybe yours was skinny enough to carry on your shoulder. So when you walked to your friend’s house you could listen – and force others to listen – to your tunes the entire way. There were the dual cassette versions that were cool too. And oh boy, didn’t we all love the ability to record off the radio! Whatever your style, having your own portable cassette player (boombox just sounds so much better) was da bomb back in the day.
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Ultimate Retro Table
We laugh when we think about floppy disks now. Yet they were a lifesaver back in the day. And the 3.5” introduced that sweet plastic cover and metal slider thing which meant you could throw them in your backpack or wherever. Ahhh, the good ol’ days. But how will future generations ever know the technologies that preceded them? Guess we need to remind them.
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Old School Gifts
Whether just a fan of nostalgia or a true Frank from Old School, plenty of gift receivers in your life would love something a little retro this holiday season. Check out the array of coolest old school gifts to make their year.
The Original Silly Putty$2.99
Fisher Price Classic Toy Keychains$3.99
80s Retro iPhone Case$22.00
Rubik’s Cube Notepad$14.49
Mattel Classic Baseball Game$14.99
The Beatles Yellow Submarine Glass Wall Clock$19.99
Star Wars Chewbacca Slippers$22.99
Pac Man & Ghost R/C Set$39.99
iPad Etch-A-Sketch Case$41.99
Nintendo Controller Backpack$49.99
Retro Music Cufflinks$49.99
Stainless Steel Stove Top Popcorn Popper$65.95
Crosley 1950s Wall Pay Phone$89.95
iCADE – iPad Arcade Cabinet$99.99
Pro Line Double Gumball & Candy Machine$160.99
Pac-Man Arcade Cocktail Table$3,500.00
Need more ideas for your gift giving this year? Visit the Coolest Gadgets Gift Picker. Tell us what they like and we’ll find the perfect gift.
The Impossible Instant Lab – for High Tech Retro Photos
Is there anyone out there (thats old enough) that didn’t own a Polaroid camera? I remember when one of those little fold up leatherette SX-70 cameras was about as high tech as you could get. Listening to the little motor grind as the picture fed out of the hopper, warming the picture against your chest or waving it in mid-air in the hopes of hastening the developing process. The camera is a dinosaur, and its demise marked the end of an era.
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The Curve Handset and Dock – Old School Meets High Tech
Most people love their iPhones, in some cases the cell phone has even taken the place of the house phone, at the very least most homes have remote phones, those wireless little bricks in varying degrees of gray colored boredom, with a few tedious ringtones and usually very few special qualities that would make one stand apart from another.
That is until now, award winning French designer Davis Turpin brings us another of his graceful everyday designs in his new Curve BT iDock. Now you can charge your iPhone and even sync with iTunes with this Bluetooth connected charger with an attractive, yet substantial handset that just begs to be cradled between your shoulder and your ear, just like in the good old days.The Curve also expands the connection radius at home by allowing you to place your mobile phone at the location with strongest signal strength, and leave it there while you move about. Continue reading » The Curve Handset and Dock – Old School Meets High Tech
Soundwagon – Driving the Music Home
I probably shouldn’t admit that I have a rather large collection of records. As I write this my daughter wants to know what they were, and if that was how we listened to music before we had electricity. Bless her little heart – no candy for her today. Anyway, the point of the story was, I no longer have a record player and I don’t have the overwhelming desire to buy one either, but I would like to hear a couple of those old tunes.
So check out Soundwagon, it just doesn’t get any neater than this. This officially licensed Volkswagen Van record player can be carried in your pocket. The Soundwagon has a player needle that is powered simply by a 9 volt battery, you just place your little VW on top of any 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record and let her go for a spin. The unit has been recently redesigned with an improved speaker and features much better sound quality than their original roll out.
The Soundwagons are made in Japan, are available worldwide, and come in blue, black, gray,white, magenta and cherry red for just under 100 bucks. Visit Soundwagon.jp for an instructional video or for ordering information and don’t forget to bring it with you next time you want to check out some records at your local retirement community yard sale. Geez.
Classic Manual Typewriter – Complete with Clickity Clack
We reported sometime ago that the India-based typewriter manufacturing company known as Godrej and Boyce had closed its doors, and we suppossed that meant that no typewriters would ever be on the market again. I guess we all felt that way for a good reason, I mean, with computers and notebooks and countless other ways to get your thoughts on paper, who needed a typewriter, really?
Well Hammacher Schlemmer realized that there may be more than just a few old school devotees who pictured themselves click clacking away at the next great novel, and has brought back from the dead, a newly manufactured manual typewriter. Forget about the next great novel, I’ll just be happy to be able to address an envelope without having to read my printers instruction manual and figure out how to use the envelope tray. Geez. Continue reading » Classic Manual Typewriter – Complete with Clickity Clack
