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rare elektronika-7 vacuum tube clock shows up on ebay

filed under: retro | timepieces

When I first spotted this dot-matrix numbers on this clock I thought it was a modern-day blue LED display. But lurking beneath the surface of this timepiece is something far more interesting.

What we actually have here is a very rare Russian relic from the early 1980s…

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November 5th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

diy headphones are brady bunch-y and cool

filed under: design | retro

DIY Headphones

These DIY headphones look fantastic! I can only (probably erroneously) assume the sound quality matches the look.

Flickr user j.rusten furniture studio shared the story behind these headphones he made for himself. He says, “I adapted a pair of normal safety earphones for speakers, and added a vintage look…

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June 18th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

30 years of video game history on auction block

filed under: retro | video games

Massive Video Game Collection

If you’ve ever wanted to build up a collection of video game nostalgia, but don’t have the patience to dig through garage sales and flea markets to put it all together, check out this insane auction.

A dedicated video game fanatic going by the name of sengoku has decided to part ways with his massive collection which is almost like a self-contained museum of gaming history…

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November 4th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

huge vintage video game console auction

filed under: retro | video games

Classic Video Game Auctions

If you’ve always wanted to build up a huge collection of vintage console games, now is you chance to do it in one fell swoop. Some guy over in Hamburg, Germany has decided to sell off his collection of over ninety classic (and not so classic) video game consoles on eBay…

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December 30th, 2006 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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