Retro Gadgets Lover Gifts

Scanning documents

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

'Big audio gear is coming back!'

"In the old days, we had to constantly feed the screensaver."

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

'I don't care what the Hares have. Dial-Up is good enough for us!'

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

The original paperless office

Backlash industries: makers of the macro-chip, bigger, slower..and it even makes mistakes

'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!'

Before the development of the microchip, attempts to build a laptop computer were largely unsuccessful.

"The new computer is great, but we can't get rid of the old one. It knows too much."

'Sorry, I can't help you, the computer's down again.'

Old Phones Lasagne

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

Library Computer Center: Cybrarian

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

'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).

'Just as we finally get the industrial revolution down pat, we find ourselves in the middle of the electronic revolution.'

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

Technological advances within the office.

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

Old-fashioned computer

'This may be an old computer, but it won the March Madness office pool again and wants the money deposited in its Swiss bank account.'

The Uses of a Stethoscope

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

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

'You'd better have a little talk with it - it wants to know where it came from.'

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

"Hold my video conferencing calls, Gina."

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

"Frank, I need your help. The computers are down, but I was told you know how to multiply two numbers together."