Retro Gadget Admirer Mugs

'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!'

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

Old Phones Lasagne

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

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

Technological advances within the office.

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

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

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

The Uses of a Stethoscope

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

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

Electronic Abacus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Business is as usual. Marginal."

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.'

Idiot's Guide to Programming a VCR.

Millennials in the Year 2050...

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

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

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

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