hours here are a couple of other notable things we saw today on our never ending journey through the wild, Wild web. High-Tech Electronics Dressed Up to Look
Old so what’s the attraction of the latest electronics, packaged in a retro design, such as full-size jukeboxes that really $ 4000 iPod docks and manual typewriters reconfigured to work as u.s.b. keyboards? Has anyone ever said, “it’s a nice Ferrari, but it would be cooler if it saw as a covered wagon look like?”
Silicon Alley Insider dug up an old Newsweek holiday gadget shopping guide of 1997, filled with gems such as the original Sony PlayStation ($ 149), the PalmPilot Professional ($ 369) and the ‘Austin Powers ‘ on DVD ($ 25). [From: Silicon Alley Insider]Wired traces the evolution of the holiday twinkle light. [From: Wired]
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