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Turn Your Apple TV Into an NES Console (Kinda)
There’s no reason to be ashamed of having the sleek Apple TV box perched on your entertainment center. But a soft spot for classic 80s gaming, and the desire to stand out from the crowd, has us wanting...
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Sensor-Filled Umbrella Turns Raindrops Into a Retro 8-Bit Soundtrack
Nintendo may have long since abandoned the Game Boy platform, but it hasn’t stopped artists with a passion for retro 8-bit sounds from using it to still create music. Like Alice Zappe, whose love of...
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Giant NES Zelda Mural Reminds Us To Never Forget About the Battles of Hyrule
We doubt anyone who grew up with an NES will forget the epic battles they fought in the original The Legend of Zelda game. But their kids probably have no idea what it’s like to fight Ganon in just two...
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Hackers Get Nintendo Virtual Boy Games Running On a 3D TV: Prepare To Burn...
In what has to be one of the least requested hacks of all time, the folks over at Bureau Voor Gamers have managed to get games from Nintendo’s first attempt at 3D gaming, the Virtual Boy, to run on a...
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Turn Your iPod Into an Old School Cassette Player With a Square Card Reader
If it works as claimed, here’s a fascinating hack for anyone still in love with the analogue sound from audio tape. With some simple modifications, Evan Long managed to turn an iPod Touch and a Square...
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Arcadie For iPhone Lightning Review: A Mini Arcade Cabinet You Can Take With You
The Arcadie brings me back to the good old days when the joystick was king. Not my good old days of course — I’m far too young — but I hear there was some appeal to wasting all your money stood in a...
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This Could Be the World’s First Computer-Generated Animation
It’s almost impossible to pin down when and where the first computer animation was created, given several companies and research facilities were dabbling in the new medium at the same time. But...
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Easily Add Secret Zelda Dungeons To Every Room In Your House
If you only grew up playing the 3D versions of The Legend of Zelda games—instead of Link’s more classic 2D overhead adventures—you probably won’t fully appreciate how awesome these secret passageway...
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Giant View-Master Photo Frame Beats Staring Through Plastic Goggles
The classic View-Master toy gave a lot of us our first look at 3D images—a technology we would one day learn to despise. But that doesn’t mean there still isn’t a soft spot for those plastic goggles...
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Is This the Worst Gadget of the Year So Far?
There’s still over four and a half months left in 2012, but Brando’s new Retro Mobile MP3 Player could very well have already clinched the title of the year’s worst gadget. It’s a crappy AM/FM radio...
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Slap Wrap Watches Celebrate the Glorious Materialism Of the Nineties
If you grew up in the 90s you probably spent your teen years lusting over incredibly expensive sneakers, begging your parents for a leather 8-Ball jacket, and wrapping obnoxiously patterned Slap Wrap...
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These Magnets Turn Your Fridge Into a Retro LED Display
These fridge magnets might not be high-minded or particularly useful, but they will turn your fridge into something that looks like a 1980s Casio digital watch. Each magnet is 1.9cm long, printed with...
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Impossible Looks to Do the Impossible and Turn Your Phone Snaps into Real,...
Alright, you might have turned your Instagram shots into an arty iPad case, or even had them made into chocolates, but have you ever wanted to grab your phone camera snaps and instantly turn them into...
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An Atari Flashback 3 Is Your Retro-Gaming-Fix Deal of the Day
Hey you over there! Yes, you, the modern gamer. Look at you, with your flashing, whirring consoles and their scores of features and fancy capabilities. You need taking down a peg or two and taught a...
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This Tower of VHS Tapes Looks Like a Shrine to Some Dark Lord of TV
Italian artist Lorenzo Durantini made this 5-foot tall tower from his collection of 2,216 VHS tapes. It looks like a shrine to the TV demons. Or, if you believe that TV makes you stupid, a monolith...
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Google Earth Used to Make Nostalgic ’60s and ’70s-Era Postcards
Hungarian art director and ad-man at BBDO, Akos Papp, has taken satellite images from Google Earth and given them a retro twist to create ‘Postcards From Above‘. The images have been beautifully...
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These 50 Attempts at Speech in Classic Video Games Actually Sound Pretty Good
If you spent most of a mid-80s childhood planted in front of a video game console, a supercut created by the folks at Jest is about to cause a stirring audio flashback. It’s a compilation of fifty...
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This Pointy, Swivelling TV Was the 84-Inch 4K Flatscreen of Its Day
You’re looking at the height of TV technology from the 1950s. Perhaps the most kitsch, retro object you’ve seen in a long time, the Kuba Komet was the 84-inch 4K flatscreen of its day — and just as...
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Google60: Search the Web Mad Men-Style
Grab yourself a cocktail and say goodbye to your productivity with this brilliant Google60 parody that lets you use the search tool as if you only had access to a monstrous IBM System/360 mainframe....
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Can Someone Please Make This Awesome Game a Reality?
This is not a game. I wish it was, but it is not. It looks like the stages map for the most awesome 8-bit game I can possibly imagine, but It’s an awesome 8-bit image made by Eric Poulton. It’s titled...
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