Those folks over at Retro Go have caught wind of a Joe-Colombo inspired house phone headed to the UK.

The Colombo One is as sleekly designed as you'd imagine considering its inspiration. Standing upright on a white panel base, the phone has a decidedly retro, swinging 60's feel about it, but with the modern additions of text messaging capabilities and a digital answering machine.

The phone also features storage for 250 contacts, 20 ring tones and a 1.4 inch full graphic inverse display.

The Colombo One is available from Argos for £33.32.

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While all eyes are on the release of Apple's Tablet, Tech Crunch has uncovered details of a previously planned Apple touchscreen tablet, codenamed the Pen Mac. Though the device never launched, with very few notes on the project in existence, Tech Crunch have unearthed some rather interesting details.

The Pen Mac was set to be a fully functional Mac with room for keyboard and mouse input, and would have been no more than an inch thick. It was also set to feature a pen-based touchscreen, which would have been incredibly ahead of its time keeping in mind the device was being developed around the late 1980s and early 90s.

It seems then that Apple have had plenty of practice when they finally get around to launching the Apple Tablet. Check out our thoughts on the "iTablet" here.

Isn't this cool? It is the RUBY, a limited edition new record cleaner from hi-fi pioneer Keith Monks Audio. Apparently forty years ago Mr Monks unveiled his first record cleaner and this mode, which is actually a tweaked version of the OMNI with a few added , and rather lovely retro style features added, is its direct descendant.

You place your vinyl in the machine and it uses cleaning liquid to keep it nice and pristine. It is also designed to make sure that none of that goo remains on the platter too. Important features include a new VacuGauge suction monitoring system, so users can keep a constant check on performance of the vacuum system.

Keith Monks son, Jonathan who runs the company now says "After 40 years we are delighted that my father's work continues to be regarded as the state of the art in record care. The Ruby Anniversary now gives us the opportunity to realise another new set of useful features which I've been working on these past few years. Without doubt they make the RUBY a landmark product which perfectly reflects such a landmark event."

It is a limited edition model with just 40 available for £3995 each.