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First Clip from Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie Plants Some Apple Seeds

First Clip from Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie Plants Some Apple Seeds

When Steve Jobs passed away, two movie projects were announced not long after his untimely death. One of the films is a big-budget production from Sony with Aaron Sorkin writing the screenplay.…

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Men’s Fish Tank Platform Shoes: Pimp My Heels

Men’s Fish Tank Platform Shoes: Pimp My Heels

People are coming up with all sorts of weird shoes lately, but these men’s platform shoes with aquariums in the heels might actually be the most wacky of them all. Clearly inspired…

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Complete Copy of Atari 2600 Air Raid for Sale: Duck and Cover Your Wallet

Complete Copy of Atari 2600 Air Raid for Sale: Duck and Cover Your Wallet

If a vintage video game is rare enough, it can sell for huge money. Back in 2010, a copy of the Atari 2600 game Air Raid sold for $31,600. The reason is…

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CB Handset on ThinkGeek: 10-4 LULZ

CB Handset on ThinkGeek: 10-4 LULZ

Remember the CB radio handset for mobile phones? The first time we saw them it seemed as if they were only available in Japan. Well, bring out your trucker hats, because ThinkGeek…

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Rare Fisheye Nikkor Lens for Sale… Just $160,000

Rare Fisheye Nikkor Lens for Sale… Just $160,000

SLR camera lenses can be pretty expensive, but this has got to be some sort of a record. A rare fisheye Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 lens, which is supposed to offer the world’s…

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CB Transceiver for iPhone Looks Silly, Sends You Back a Few Decades

CB Transceiver for iPhone Looks Silly, Sends You Back a Few Decades

Remember those old CB radios with the huge microphones you spoke into? My dad told me a story once of how these radio used to be the “cellphones” of their time. They…

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Retro Flip Watch Puts the 1970s on Your Wrist

Retro Flip Watch Puts the 1970s on Your Wrist

If you grew up in the 1970s, you probably remember one of the most popular types of bedside alarm clocks had those little mechanical numbers which flipped over when the minutes changed.…

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BSG Colonial Viper Helmet is Awesome (and No You Can’t Have One for Halloween)

BSG Colonial Viper Helmet is Awesome (and No You Can’t Have One for Halloween)

Fans of the classic Battlestar Galactica series will be drooling over this epic bit of cosplay gear, just announced. It’s a helmet based on the ones worn by Colonial Viper pilots, and…

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Photojojo Offers Limited-Edition Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera

Photojojo Offers Limited-Edition Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera

Back in the day, the Polaroid SX-70 instant camera was on the cutting edge of portable gadget tech. Now, Photojojo is offering the old school SX-70 as a limited-edition refurbished unit for…

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Turn Your iPhone into a Retro Calculator

Turn Your iPhone into a Retro Calculator

Here’s a fun way to fool your friends into thinking you’re still living in the 1970s by turning your shiny new iPhone 4 into a classic digital calculator from days gone by.…

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Commodore PET Gets New Life as Windows PC

Commodore PET Gets New Life as Windows PC

Remember the old Commodore PET personal computer from back in the late 1970s? With its trapezoidal built-in monitor, it was the most “futuristic” computer of its time, despite its relatively meager 6502…

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Pokapon Dx: Wigs a Poppin’!

Pokapon Dx: Wigs a Poppin’!

We here in the U.S. might have had Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots when we were kids, but in Japan back in 1979, they had a little game called Pokapon. Instead of…

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Cray-1 Casemod Runs Way Faster Than the Original

Cray-1 Casemod Runs Way Faster Than the Original

While Cray Research may have only sold about eighty of it’s monstrous Cray-1 supercomputers back in the 1970s, its unusual hexadecagon design made it one of the most iconic computer systems of…

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1970s Star Trek Fan Film is an Awesome Time Capsule

1970s Star Trek Fan Film is an Awesome Time Capsule

This retro video is sure to put a smile on the face of any original Trekkies out there. If you were a kid in the 1970s, then this is exactly what your…

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Laser Cut Retro Art Brings Back Fond Childhood Memories

Laser Cut Retro Art Brings Back Fond Childhood Memories

See if you can name all of the iconic retro images you’ll find in cutoutpaper’s Retro Laser Cut art. I definitely recognize my Speak & Spell, NES controller, Casio calculator watch, Etch-a-Sketch,…

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V.I.n.Cent Gets Vinyl-Ized for Posterity [the Black Hole]

V.I.n.Cent Gets Vinyl-Ized for Posterity [the Black Hole]

For those of us who grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Disney’s The Black Hole was one of those seminal science fiction flicks we’ll never forget. And thanks to…

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