retro

The gift for the dad who has everything? Well thanks to technology, there are increasingly more everythings out there in the world each day, which makes the search easier. A little easier? Okay, not that much easier. But if you've got an…

Remember when "chatting" involved a receiver comfortably nestled between your chin and shoulder while you paced the kitchen, tethered by a springy coil that was fun to wrap around your finger? If not, congratulations on not having eye wr…

Whether you spent your youth glued to a Gameboy, know a dude who keeps his NES on a pedestal, or have kids digging on Mario for Wii, these pixelated sweatshirts might be worthy of a one-up. The Drew Wise (The Pixel Artist) Collection fea…

I love finding interesting gifts for camera lovers that aren't necessarily $500 lenses. The retro camera candles I recently found made me super happy, and now here's one more gift that's doing the same--just in time for Mother's Day. Flo…

While I'm certainly the type of mom who'd appreciate oh, a cool vintage Polaroid for Mother's Day, it doesn't mean I'm not the candle and bath salts type too. Which is why I'm giggling at this Mother's Day gift idea that brings them all …

Long ago, the only way to communicate with geeks in a galaxy far, far away was to write a letter, stick a stamp on it, decorate the envelope with unicorns and fairies, and mail it. Then we got email. And Twitter. And Facebook. And tumblr…

If you grew up on characters like Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong, the new news from Nintendo will make you want to dig out your flannels, dust off those cowboy boot shoes, and pause the Friends marathon while you get your hands on some of …

No, the Samsung Galaxy isn't walking away from the 21st century touch screen. At least, not on the screen. How great are these Samsung Galaxy rotary phone cases ? Available at photographer Kim DeGooyer's Semi Sweet Studios shop on Etsy, …

Ah, the 1980s. Video games like Donkey Kong were new and exciting... and dominated by dudes. The only women around were damsels in distress, waiting to be saved. That is, until one little girl's dad got involved. Three-year-old Ellis had…

Perhaps at some point, you will be sitting around, wondering what the heck you get for the guy who has everything, including all three major gaming systems, two drawers full of controllers, and an ancient copy of Madden Football for Amig…

Oh Fanimation, where have you been all my life? Well, not like I'm thinking about cranking up the fans around the house just yet, but soon! And when I do, this is what I want on my windowsill doing the job. The portable fans from Fanimat…

We recently highlighted some of the best over-the-ear headphones for all that new tech you're going to be wanting to tune into after the holidays. Well it turns out that after having seen, oh, 6,000 (roughly) over-ear headphones at the 2…

While I was cleaning out my mom's house this summer, I found a boatload of old 35mm film negatives and other than send them to a service that develops old photos , I had absolutely no idea what to do with them. Well, with this campaign o…

I grew up loving that little 1970s-era digital clock on my grandparents' bed table, that remained there long after the world had moved onto all things digital. For that reason, I have a beautiful feeling of nostalgia when I look at these…

Since we've gone landline-free, I admit I'm happy not to pay two phone bills. But I also sometimes pine for a phone that never requires me to say, "Honey...can you call my phone so I can find it?" I think this one fits the bill pretty be…

You'll hiss with happiness for this adorable twist on a retro-cool phone accessory from one of our favorite designers. Rebecca Minkoff has done it again with the Python POP Phone , a ssssuper sweet snake-print handset for your mobile pho…

If you still feel the need to let your Ojai/Big Sur hippie flag fly, despite your love for 21st century technology, this is the perfect iPhone case for you. The vintage VW bus iPhone case is cracking me up. Photographer Rob Dickinson tur…

I confess, I still have boxes of CDs that may never be sold or donated. As wonderful as MP3s are, there's something about owning my music in handy CD form that I can't let go of. So wasn't I surprised to see a company still making a CD p…

Leave it to Jonathan Adler to take something high tech, make it look low tech, which then makes me want it. Like this old fashioned phone looking thing? Not really a phone at all. Actually it's the Jonathan Adler smartphone dock which we…

Readers of this site will know we all have a thing for juxtapositions of new and old--like vintage train cases reincarnated as gadget charging stations or high tech home phones with retro style. Now we're going way back, with this very a…

Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Christina Applegate shares her favorite. I love Oldbooth . You take people's faces and put eighties hair on them. It's awesome. - C…

I still fondly remember my Polaroid camera. Like so many photo buffs, I was devastated when Polaroid went the way of the Betamax. Well, with this new gadget, you will get almost the same effect with your very 21st century iPhone. And the…

With Labor Day here, I've got organization on the brain. So when I saw this beautiful, crafty way to make the tangle of electronics by my bedside a little more pretty and a little less "what's behind the displays at Best Buy" I was amaze…

We're increasingly seeing a yearning for the pre-cell phone days of yore. There's iRetrophone which is an iPhone dock disguised as old desk phone, and the Pop Phone headset which lets you talk on your mobile phone with a classic corded h…