Tag: retro
Bbrrrrrring! It's the retro iPod alarm clock!
The new 160GB iPod Classic has a promised battery life of 40 hours, which means in theory, you could wake up with it two days in a row without ever turning it off. Alternatively, you could get the Retro iPod Alarm Clock for your old-skool iPod.
It’s a charging dock with speakers and alarm function, designed to look like, yes, a retro alarm clock. The speakers are actually housed within the fake bells. Don’t worry sleepyheads, it does have a nine-minute snooze function.
Go telephone retro with a genuine refurbished GPO dial telephone
If retro’s your thing, then make sure you get hold of a no-frills, genuinely refurbished GPO dial telephone, and get back to making phone calls the old fashioned way.
Forget touch tone, keypads, and frivolous novelties. These are genuine refurbished BT dial telephones in the classic design, and available in five colours: classic ivory, classic red, classic black, or even (for a heady mix of old and new), “Big Brother” Blue and Black, or two tone pink.
Please: no more wooden retro DAB radios
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is the future, right? It's Radio 2.0, providing crystal-clear access to loads of digital stations, some of which aren't available on FM. It's starting to get interactive features too, including proper EPGs, two-way connectivity, and the ability to pause live radio and record shows.
CES 2007: The best retro gramophone hi-fi you'll ever see
Okay, I might be over-egging a bit. But it is pretty marvellous. This home audio system was on the Technosonic stand at CES, the same one that had the Mini Washer. And it looks like a tweaked version of the…
Top 50 Games That Changed The World: Nos 50-46
At the risk of sounding as impenetrable as those Grand Theft Auto cultural theorists the other week, video games are now a proper, genuine art form in their own right. Even if they're still often not treated as such by…
ThinkGeek's budget retro handset with Bluetooth
With Hulger's vintage-styled Bluetooth handset retailing for around £100, there's an obvious gap in the market for a cheaper version – after all, these things are never going to be more than a novelty. ThinkGeek has taken up the…
