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Vintage Appliance Timers from Homade

By Abby McVay on Tuesday, Apr 15th 2008 No Comments

About a year ago I came across one of the items from this line, however, what I didn’t realize is that there are four other gadgets from the same line. All five are from Homade, the same people who made the Lego MP3 player.

vintage appliance alarm clocks

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Humax TV – coming straight from London’s ChauhanStudio

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 28th 2008 No Comments

This beautiful and elegant TV coming from Humax is a thing of retro art. It even manages to pack in multiple functions including the ability to just play the radio when you need it.

chauhan tv

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The slightly unpractical Rolleiflex Digital Camera

By Abby McVay on Friday, Mar 21st 2008 No Comments

For any camera lovers that appreciate the classic and slightly more antique cameras might enjoy this new gadget. The best of both worlds, designed to look like the Rolleriflex 2.8F, but comes packed full of modern technology.

Vintage Rolleiflex Digital Camera

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Walkman Radio Wristlet with built in speakers

By Abby McVay on Monday, Mar 17th 2008 No Comments

If you have a thing for portable speakers with a slight vintage flair, you might want to check out this Walkman wristlet. Featuring the design of technology from long ago (that’s long ago in technology years) this wristlet will hold what you want it to and play your favorite tunes.

walkman radio wristlet has built in speakers

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Supermandolini’s Floppy Disc coasters

By Abby McVay on Friday, Feb 29th 2008 No Comments

Supermandolini has created coasters for geeks. You might be wondering why we geeks need special coasters and the answer is simple. It is merely, because we can, that’s why. These coasters are fashioned after the extremely outdated floppy disk.

I’ve seen other geeky coasters before, some made out of old recycled circuit boards, however, I do believe these are my new favorites. Yes, you could use real floppy disks and it would likely be cheaper, however, they might get a little wobbly after a while. Plus, these are cooler.

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Metro Phone is cordless and retro

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Feb 19th 2008 2 Comments

It runs on the 900MHz band and is a cordless phone with such modern amenities as caller ID. Even with the current century upgrades it still manages to maintain the retro look that makes it worth its cost.

Metro Cordless Phone

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Cyber Familator Lite loads 8-bit Famicom games on your Nintendo DS Lite

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 9th 2008 No Comments

If there aren’t enough games to your liking on the Nintendo DS Lite, and you’d rather have some retro Famicom pleasure instead, you really need Cyber Gadget’s Cyber Familator Lite. Plug the Familator into the DS’ GBA slot, add a Famicom cartridge, and you can play all the addictive 8-bit games you want.

Cyber Familiator Lite - Famicom adaptor for Nintendo DS Lite

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Rubik’s Cube Speakers prove the cube will never die

By Christina Crouch on Thursday, Jan 3rd 2008 No Comments

I’m not sure how retro you can call the Rubik’s cube anymore. It’s all over the place, made it’s comeback and is definitely in the here and now. I hate to break it to it but it’s retro-ed itself back in style.

rubiks cube speakers

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Pac-Man Joystick with games built-in

By Abby McVay on Monday, Dec 31st 2007 No Comments

This year while I was doing my Christmas shopping for my niece and two nephews I came across these bad boys. I find it awesome that they found a twist to bring the classics back for the younger generations to enjoy.

pac-man joystick

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Micro TV Comes Back?

By Christina Crouch on Tuesday, Dec 18th 2007 No Comments

I’m not exactly sure what a ‘micro TV’ is doing on the market right now when ‘the bigger, the better’ seems to the TV motto, but it is. Not only that it’s a throwback to a 60’s version… maybe they are trying to sell off of the retro craze, I don’t know.

Micro Tv