Retro Futurist Gifts

'Does it have colour?'

The Automatic Policeman

'It's an e-mail in a bottle!'

'I've traveled back in time to warn you...in the future you'll be charged a fee to watch television AND the commercials, you'll need a computer to hear music, and morons roam the streets with tiny phones they talk extremely loud into!'

I took the early retirement package.

'That's right, Henderson. It's a time machine. And I'll be using it to go back and fire you, like I should've done years ago!'

Space Rocket.

Y2k sign with bombs for the zeros and a man with a flute of champagne leaning on one

"And our charging station, also a period piece. . ."

'Don't throw the little silicon chips away -- we may find a use for them someday.'

"Milk, butter, bread - all past the expiration date. either he just hadn't noticed before, or his time machine worked."

The first email message was conceived, funded and launched in the Gobi Desert by Kikutake Suji.

'Greetings 2000' Santa passing out gasmasks as presents to children

'I love this street...it's so real man...'

"No wonder they don't understand out consumer culture. They've developed an effective ad blocker."

"Nothing beats the convenience of these newfangled smart-watches."

The wonder of modern technology

"That the wheel invented-now for the hub caps!"

"And remember those goofy old movies that showed everyone in the twenty-first century wearing the same unisex outfit?"

Early Pioneers (TVs,speakers,headphones,etc)

Everything will look perfectly flat...in your Realtek 2D glasses.

'A century of studying the male brain has paid off.'

'Impressive. I didn't think something that fancy wouldn't be invented at least until the year 1850.'

Phone rings, bizarre contraption moves towards it. Man says: 'Let the machine get it.'

Time change

"There is a 5 month slow down. You are still on the fastest route. You will arrive next year."

"This time I'm sure I've got it right!"

Time Machine Design Project. Nice attention to detail, Ernie, but I don't think it needs a rear view mirror for traveling into the past.

When you think about it, you have to be a complete idiot NOT to believe aliens crashed at Roswell in 1947. It's clear we reverse-engineered their tech. Before 1947: Primitive cars, planes and radio. After 1947: Spaceships, quantum computing, internet. Let me try ... Before 1947: No bikinis. After 1947: Bikinis. No, wait ... the bikini was 1946. That throws this whole theory into question. We really should have our own science show.

How we imagined A.I. in 1977. . . How it's looking today. . .

Time Machine Collision

"Look, can we just cut the sh*t today?"

Occu-Pie Mars

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

'Our parents were replaced by machines - We'll be replaced with new software.'