I watched The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from a young age. I was so young that my hands weren't strong enough to turn the knobs of my parents' retro TV. I'm totally serious. I had to have someone turn on the TV and change the channel for me. Read More >>
Featured comment by Longfellow:
"Same here, mine had the RamPack as Duke described, all that extra space! Also remember the Atari 2600 which lived in a drawer under the tv my dad bui..." More »
Blitz Games, home of Dizzy creators the Oliver twins and one of the stalwarts of the UK development scene for the last 20 years, has called it a day. Around 125 jobs will go at the maker, as it closes the majority of its operations. Read More >>
Did you know that instant film cameras are still being made? Fujifilm's line of Instax cameras has been trying to weather the digital storm, and it's now releasing a new Instax camera that has a whole lot more style. Read More >>
As companies like Apple and Samsung are heralding the end of the button, LG is taking its design in a different direction. This new 'Classic TV' features a wood panelled front complete with tuning knobs and buttons to create what LG describes as a "classic Scandinavian style design that emphasizes simplicity, modernity." Read More >>
With the Lumix GX7, Panasonic has created a pretty spectacular-looking hybrid of all the mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera technology the company has been developing over the last few years. We can't wait. Read More >>
Featured comment by CaptainLove:
"Looks like stiff competition to the NEX6/7. But really, at this price range, are there any mirrorless cameras that even come close to the quality of t..." More »
Radios are normally boring, bland boxes with an aerial sticking out somewhere, but not so for the French design legends over at Lexon. This sweet-looking Mezzo Radio brings your Martian-loving future crashing right into your retro-grilled past, and it won't even break the bank, either. Read More >>
This is not a game. I wish it was, but it is not. It looks like the stages map for the most awesome 8-bit game I can possibly imagine, but It's an awesome 8-bit image made by Eric Poulton. It's titled Underneath It All, which is a great game name too. Read More >>
Grab yourself a cocktail and say goodbye to your productivity with this brilliant Google60 parody that lets you use the search tool as if you only had access to a monstrous IBM System/360 mainframe. Spoiler alert: you'll probably be pulling your hair out after five minutes. Read More >>
You're looking at the height of TV technology from the 1950s. Perhaps the most kitsch, retro object you've seen in a long time, the Kuba Komet was the 84-inch 4K flatscreen of its day -- and just as expensive. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"More like it was the Bang & Olufsen with a built in Bluray player of its time, the combined components are no more impressive than those available..." More »
If you spent most of a mid-80s childhood planted in front of a video game console, a supercut created by the folks at Jest is about to cause a stirring audio flashback. It's a compilation of fifty clips featuring incredibly brief attempts at speech in classic video games. Given the limitations of the cartridges, the audio is still kind of impressive. Read More >>
Featured comment by Munzy:
"The sheer joy of getting "180!" out of a Spectrum from the Mastertronic classic is the original for me! Then the wee dog pished on the bar lol!" More »
Hungarian art director and ad-man at BBDO, Akos Papp, has taken satellite images from Google Earth and given them a retro twist to create 'Postcards From Above'. The images have been beautifully selected and are mostly of modern architecture and urban infrastructure. To these, he added period typography from the '60s and '70s, and the effect is really very convincing. Read More >>
Italian artist Lorenzo Durantini made this 5-foot tall tower from his collection of 2,216 VHS tapes. It looks like a shrine to the TV demons. Or, if you believe that TV makes you stupid, a monolith that turns people to monkeys on touch. Unless these are all 2001 tapes. Read More >>
Hey you over there! Yes, you, the modern gamer. Look at you, with your flashing, whirring consoles and their scores of features and fancy capabilities. You need taking down a peg or two and taught a history lesson. Read More >>
Alright, you might have turned your Instagram shots into an arty iPad case, or even had them made into chocolates, but have you ever wanted to grab your phone camera snaps and instantly turn them into real analogue photos? The folks at Impossible look to do that with their snazzy Instant Lab, that takes your digital photos and turns them into real instant analogue prints. Ya-huh! Read More >>
Featured comment by acearchie:
"In essence though it's not printing the image but taking a picture of the image on the iPhone creating a true analogue conversion with all the intrica..." More »
If you grew up in the 90s you probably spent your teen years lusting over incredibly expensive sneakers, begging your parents for a leather 8-Ball jacket, and wrapping obnoxiously patterned Slap Wrap bracelets around your wrist. It was a time of unbridled materialism that this reborn Slap Wrap watch seems to celebrate instead of condemn. Read More >>
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