Tag: retro
Anatomy Of An Audio Cassette (For All The Youngins)
I know one of the first things someone is going to ask me about this article is what is a "youngin." According to the Urban Dictionary, the word youngin is country slang, and it means young people. I live in the south, and a lot of people here who use that word, so I can assure you it's alive and we ...
Vintage Action Figures From The 1978 The Lord Of The Rings Movie
The world can't seem to get enough of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic Middle Earth. It's like we always crave more, and the first movie in the prequel series of The Hobbit should stand as testament of that. The way Peter Jackson brought Middle Earth to life is almost unprecedented. From start to finish, The L ...
Retro Super Mario Belt Wraps An Entire Level Around Your Waist
If you were around in the middle of the '80s, you could probably turn on a Nintendo NES game station today and start playing Super Mario Bros. while remembering every single detail about the game. You know, the secret area above the game level in the underground on the first level for example. Or, t ...
Be My Player Two: The Geeky Super Mario Marriage Proposal
We've featured a lot of geek marriage proposals on Bit Rebels before. This other Super Mario Proposal from a year ago where the guy printed hundreds of pieces of paper and taped them to his living room walls to look like the game was pretty much known as the geekiest proposal at that time. That vide ...
WynCASE: Retro Console Case For Today’s iPhone
Let's return to the gaming side of the iPhone for a second. Games are one of the reasons, if not the biggest one, why the App Store has become such a huge success. This is not only because there are games to be downloaded, but also because developers have a platform to present their games and share ...
Impressively Intricate Boombox Retro Case For The iPhone 5
We're going to take a look at an unusually cool iPhone 5 case today. Cases for the iPhone 5 have started to enter the market in great numbers. Some of them are just cases that were previously available for iPhone 4/S users which received an update. However, this one is somewhat new and will have any ...
PhoneJoy Turns Your iPhone Into A Handheld Console
The iPhone becomes more powerful with each update and iteration. It has even become a gaming "console" to be reckoned with, and there are more and more games ported to the iOS platform. Some of course with less success than others, but that is not because of the power of the iPhone, but because of t ...
The ONE Mini Once Again Enables You To Snap Polaroid Pictures
Usually when I write about photography, it has something to do with the iPhone. This time around though, I am not going to present something that has anything to do with it. Nope, this thing is an entirely new product, and it will surely inspire a lot of photographers out there. Some of you might re ...
Giant Floppy Disk Becomes The Ultimate Retro Coffee Table
Do you remember the old 3.5 inch floppy disks? Chances are you don't since those were abandoned quite a long time ago. Well, at least it was a long time ago if you compare it to the speed that technology pushes forward. Instead, the CD has become our main storage space (if we don't count the Interne ...
Retro iPhone Dock Makes Even The Touch-Tone Phone Look Up To Date
It seems to me that people are quite fond of things that are retro, or even beyond that. People like things that make them reminiscence about the past, and that stuff always makes a lasting impression. Most things that are retro are based on our lifestyle in the '80s, but every once in a while, we s ...
Boombox Retro Watch Fuses The ’80s With Today
Music has always been a huge part of human history. It has helped create lifestyles that would have been impossible to imagine without it. Music has inspired millions of people, and it keeps inspiring our whole world in ways we can't even comprehend. Whatever music you feel like listening to, it's p ...
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Then And Now Life: Offices In I970 vs. Offices In 2012 [Infographic]
In the 1970s, the three most popular careers that women chose were either a nurse, a secretary or a teacher. They weren't the only career choices women had back then of course, but they were the most popular. I stumbled across an article today on AOL Jobs that said the most popular careers that wome ...
Projecteo: Mini Retro Instagram Image Slide Projector
Who's not on Instagram these days, right? This mega network of photographers and networkers has rapidly become one of the, if not the, most popular photo sharing service on the Internet. It's odd though that Instagram hasn't opened up to more "modding" than they have. Their API could be so much rich ...
Extreme Pumpkin Mod: Playable, Electronic Tetris Inside A Pumpkin
I've written about quite a few extreme pumpkin carvings before, but this one is insane! If you are fan of retro video games and freaky pumpkins, you are going to love this. It's a playable, electronic Tetris built right into the guts of a pumpkin. What will you use for the controller? Well, the stem ...
Retro Paper Dress Up Dolls For People Stuck In The ’80s
I remember as a kid what it was like to open a new box of cereal after my mom bought it. Usually there was a toy inside, and on the back of the box you could sometimes find those paper dress up (pop up) dolls that you could cut out and play with. Unfortunately I never spent too much time actually cu ...