This Engineer Built a 9-Instrument Orchestra From Vintage Computers
You know that moment when someone takes something impossibly complicated and makes it look like the most natural thing in the world? That’s exactly what…
Retro
This LEGO Retro TV Build Shows You How Cathode Ray Tubes Actually Worked
Before flat screens and streaming services, television sets were hulking pieces of furniture that commanded respect and curiosity in equal measure. FMDavid’s LEGO Ideas submission…
NES-inspired 8BitDo Retro Cube 2 Has a D-Pad for Volume and Playback
Most small Bluetooth speakers are generic cylinders or bricks that sit somewhere on a desk and do not really belong to the rest of the…
This Tiny Retro PC Is Your Alarm Clock, Speaker, and Pixel Canvas
Cozy desk setups have become a competitive sport. Tiny CRTs, retro keyboards, and beige plastic everywhere, usually looking very cute but doing very little beyond…
Timeless rotary phone reborn as modern AI-powered companion that plays music
Who can forget the charm of rotary phones that were a lifeline in the early ’90s and ’80s? Their iconic mechanical dialling wheel with finger…
MaClock Shrinks the 1984 Macintosh Into a $30 Rechargeable Clock
Nostalgia tech falls into two camps. Lazy references slap a retro logo on a modern object and call it vintage, while obsessive recreations feel like…
Retro Gadgets For Vintage Lovers: 5 Nostalgic Gifts That Actually Work In 2025
Nostalgia isn’t about living in the past—it’s about celebrating design moments when objects had soul, character, and tangible presence. For vintage lovers, the aesthetic pull…
This Open-Source Retropunk Computer Solves Distraction by Removing Everything Except Writing
Your laptop can do anything, which increasingly means it’s optimized for nothing. This isn’t a new observation, but the solutions have mostly been software-based: distraction-blocking…
This 15g Digital Camera Looks Like a Tiny Polaroid, Hangs on Keychains
Instant cameras had their moment, then faded away, then came roaring back as nostalgia items for people who missed the tactile joy of physical photos….
This Power Strip Is Shaped Like an Original NES Console
Power strips live beneath desks or behind furniture where nobody has to look at them. Black plastic housings with rows of identical outlets do their…
Someone Made a Brick Phone Power Bank with a Working Walkie Talkie
Portable chargers occupy that weird space between essential and forgettable, living in bags until phones hit red battery warnings. Most focus exclusively on capacity and…
When Rivals Become Allies: Atari’s Intellivision Revival
If you were a fully formed human in the 80s and you were into gaming, you lived through the fun rivalry between Mattel’s Intellivision and…