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Spotify, YouTube, and others get reimagined as retro anime tech
Artist Sheng Lam is behind the satisfyingly chunky designs
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The enduring allure of retro tech
In the era of disposability, some cling tightly to Walkmen, DVDs, and our fading love of stuff.
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Tiger Electronics Is Bringing Back Its LCD Games With Sonic And More
Hasbro's initial lineup includes four classic titles.
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Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC
Build Microsoft delighted retro fans by closing its Build conference with an open-sourcing of 1983's GW-BASIC. Warning that he would not be accepting pull requests from fans seeking to scratch a 37-year-old itch, senior program manager Rich Turner made the treble by adding the open-sourcing to the already-scored goals of Windows Terminal 1.0 and the impending arrival of GUI and GPU support in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.
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The Game Boy Camera is a fantastic low-res art tool
Last year, I found a retro Game Boy Camera and printer attachment. These products debuted in 1998, and I love to use them to take and print photos.
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Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in June 1991
Welcome back to June 1991, a year of great games and some not so great games. I was going to traumatise you all by reminding you of Gilbert, the snotty alien from that Saturday morning show but then remembered there are much better games to talk about. Still, if I have to remember him so do you so enjoy the image.
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Today in Apple history: iOS 4 launch brings multitasking and FaceTime
On June 21, 2010, Apple releases the first version of iOS 4. With FaceTime and multitasking features, it's a big step forward for iDevices.
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Nuclear-powered Tetris handheld generates power for a century
Have you ever picked up a forgotten handheld and thought: “I want to play you, but I know I’ll have to charge you.”? What If I said you’d barely have to worry about charging your device again for the rest of your life? Well, one YouTuber has an unconventional solution: a nuclear-powered Tetris game.
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The epic Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain joins GOG.COM
Over the decades, gaming has expanded in ways people could never have imagined, but one genre that has continued to stand the test of time while still growing is the action-adventure genre.
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Calling all payphone users: thousands of call boxes set for protection
With 96% of UK adults now owning a mobile phone, and mobile signal improving significantly in recent years, the way people make calls is changing.
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BlackBerry will die on January 4th — for real this time
Dear friends, we’re gathered here today to mourn the death of that once-beloved monarch of the mobile world: BlackBerry. And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware.
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The 'last man' selling floppy-disks says airlines continue to make orders for the ancient storage technology
The archaic floppy disk apparently isn't as obsolete as we thought in the US. While they're a relic of another time, at least one industry is still interested in the storage devices, according to the person who claims to be "last man standing in the floppy disk business." Tom Persky, the founder of floppydisk.com — which sells and recycles floppy disks — said that the airline industry is one of his biggest customers in the new book "Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium" by Niek Hilkmann and Thomas Walskaar.
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The quiet disappearance of the safe deposit box
Once revered as the safest way to store physical valuables, safe deposit boxes are now being phased out by major banks.
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Two C64s Plus a Pile of Floppy Disks Equals One Accordion
The Commodordion is played just like a traditional instrument
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SF’s Market Street Subway Is Running on Reagan-Era Technology
SFMTA runs trains on a storage format that can’t even hold a hi-res image.
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