Tag: retro
WATCH: Apple actually invented “Continuity” in 2002
Ruark Audio R7 resurrects the radiogram's retro style
Ruark are looking to resurrect the retro stylings of the radiograms of old with the Ruark Audio R7. Taking its cues from the 1960s audio gear that can still be found collecting dust in nans' houses up and down the…
Go Waka Waka for these 8-Bit designer Pac-Man gaming blinds
Looking to spruce up your gaming den or geek chic office? Then these retro-inspired 8-Bit gaming blinds from Direct Blinds may be right up your alley. Pulling sprites from Pac-Man, Super Mario and Space Invaders down over the world outside…
What the internet future looked like in 1995
This MTV clip from 1995 is excellent. It shows reporters and celebrities telling us all about this wonderful new thing called the "internet" – all of a sudden it's everywhere and it's so popular! (Thanks, Sandra Bullock.) While a…
"HELLO?! I'M ON THE PHONE! YEAH, THE ONE WITH THE MASSIVE THUMBS UP iPHONE CASE"
Manufacturers spend billions designing the sleekest, smallest phones to slip in our pockets, with some smartphones about the size of a matchbox. But as they say in Texas, bigger is better, so lets introduce the Thumbs Up iPhone case that'll…
iSupr8: Let's You Make Ultra Hipster Videos With Your iPhone
If there is one thing that iPhone users apparently love its retro style apps. Both the Hipstamatic and Instagram apps take care of your photos, but what about your videos? They just look so modern and boring. Well get…
Retro iPhone dock turns your mobile into a Mad Men rotary dialler…sort of…
You head out to the shops, wages in hand, and head over to the Apple store to buy their latest, greatest iPhone 4 handset, complete with all the high-spec bells and whistles of a top-notch smartphone. What do you…
Pac-Man's 30th birthday celebrated with playable Google doodle!
How cool is this?! To mark retro gaming icon Pac-Man's 30th birthday, Google have not only turned their doodle logo over to the little yellow pill-popper, but have also made it the first ever playable Google doodle. Head on over…
Sony give mix-tape lovers a retro lifeline with the CFD-A110 boom box
The floppy-disc may have gone the way of the Dodo, but there is one ageing technology that may yet prove to be as resilient as a cockroach; the cassette tape. Maybe it's the sentimentality that we attach to our favourite…
Retro Thing release classic USB Joystick. Take that, evil space invaders!
You can shove your PS3s and Xbox 360s; put yourself in front of a classic Galaxian arcade cabinet and watch as it devourers all the silver in your pockets with old-school gaming joy. Emulators like MAME may keep your piggybank…