Retro Gadgets Pillows

"TV was more fun when I was your age. You could spend hours playing with the contrast, the horizontal hold, and fiddling with the rabbit ears."

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

"Is that your beeper or my beeper?"

"It's for you."

"Bless this mess: The beautifully tangled reasons you *still* wear wired headphones"

"Sometimes I just enjoy listening to some of my favorite old messages."

Damian plays his walkman too load once too often.

'Pardon me, sir, but your cell phone is really, really dated.'

"How is the new hearing aid?"

"Now it's high definition!"

"Granddad, tell me again about those funny old phones with the wheels...you know...rotary dials."

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

Camel Boom Box

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

'When played backwards these say terrible things like 'do your homework' and 'clean your room.''

'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

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

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

"The computer's messed up? How time flies! Seems only yesterday you couldn't program the VCR!"

"Can't fix the WiFi? How times flies! Seems only yesterday you couldn't program the VCR!"

The Uses of a Stethoscope

Electronic Abacus

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

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

Millennials in the Year 2050...

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

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

"Business is as usual. Marginal."

'This is a painting of your grandfather.'

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

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

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

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