Retro Gadget Admirer Gifts

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

"Won't the neighbours be jealous when they see our new 'high definition visual entertainment system'?"

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

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

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

'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!'

Old Phones Lasagne

"If I can't use a calculator, may I use my Dad's old slide-rule?"

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

Technological advances within the office.

The Uses of a Stethoscope

"We think your telephone is a great invention, Mr Bell, but is a bit basic. How about adding a phonograph to it?"

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

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

'...please switch of all mobile phones, paging devices and alarm watches...'

'I'm worried about that dog's hearing,Doris.'

'He's not a 'bad' phone. He's just not a 'smart' phone.'

"For a list of the ways artificial intelligence is killing your job, please press one."

'How kids really saw Mr Robinson in computer classes.'

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."

Electronic Abacus

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

'Well yes, it is a Jurassic model...OK, I'll knock off two bucks.'

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

What's that? A car phone. All I need now is a car.

Abacus manufacturer waits for virus to destroy computers.

'It isn't that our old computers aren't compatible with our new computers - It's that you're not compatible with our new computers.'

"I love you, even though you still use a flip phone."

Millennials in the Year 2050...

"Business is as usual. Marginal."

Idiot's Guide to Programming a VCR.

"What about that! His brain still uses the old vacuum tubes."

'Knock the corners off that mate - and you've got the wheel.'