Gadget Enthusiasts With A Love For Classics Gifts

'Well, you know what they say...give a million monkees a million cell phones and they'll eventually text the entire works of Shakespeare.'

"No Timmy, I don't think your pencil has system requirments or upgrades you can download from the internet."

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

The Uses of a Stethoscope

'Father, when are you going to get software for our home computer that will teach me French?'

"He's our new trend-spotter?"

"However good father's 'beaver-o-matic' was..."

'Apparently the poor love's walkman is broken.'

Millennials in the Year 2050...

An elderly woman with a heart-shaped ear trumpet

'This is the only secure line in the building.'

"Remember always power up you machine clockwise"

'After you're done crank starting your computer, maybe we can talk about investing in better technology.'

'I'm not saying he's too old, but he has a five-inch floppy disk drive.'

"My computer tower is so big and old, I had to rent a forklift to remove it from my home."

"This is so cool! I'm flying this thing completely on my Palm pilot!"

'We need a new TV, Dad — it's stupid watching 'Reading Rainbow' in black and white.'

'... So I'm standing near this old guy and he's using an old, giant cell phone-- I mean this thing is ridiculous! Hahahaha!'

"OMIGOD! I'm becoming my predecessor!"

Aklexander Graham Bell, making the first call from New York to Chicago, gets a wrong number.

"I don't need to know your age. I saw you suing a flip phone, so I'll just assume you're old."

'Hey Dad - you're shaving with my transistor radio!'

Computer Based Training - the early years

'I can't hear a thing!'

Scanning documents

Wireless Access Here.

'We can't put it off any longer, we must book hearing tests.'

'You'll have to get the kids to explain it to you — it's some new thing called the 'internet.''

"First it was one kid, then another and another...mobile banking has put my kind out of work."

'It's the back up system for when the office intranet crashes!!'

"Didn't I say we should have bought a cordless?"

'Hello Cynthia, it's me...I thought I'd phone for a natter, Gerald's fallen asleep in front of the TV...trying to program the video.'

'I don't have the heart to tell him that electric typewriters aren't REALLY the latest thing.'

"Sundials! Hourglasses!"