If you’re wondering how Apple’s new and super-slim aluminum keyboard looks compared to all the other keyboards they’ve produced over the years you better check out Blake Patterson’s gallery. The one pictured above is the 1983 Apple Lisa keyboard.
Makes me wonder how our beloved peripherals will look in another 24 years.
Blakespot.com: The flat Apple Keyboard vs. others
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You remember Soundwave, the Decepticon Transformer that could transform into a tape deck? Well, now it’s available as a fully functional MP3 player, transforming and everything. Just put a microSD card in it with the storage space of your own choice and go.
With a single AAA-battery you get 6 hours of playtime and it’s available in sonic white and spark blue.
AudioCubes.com: Transformers Music Label SoundWave MP3 Player ($129.00, Global Shipping)
NCSX: Takara Tomy Transformers Soundwave MP3 Player ($99.00)
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Korean Rockza has started selling this retro PVC travel bag sporting the familiar Space Invaders theme, complete with scanlines and everything. The bag will cost you about $45 USD, but there’s no word on availability outside of Korea yet.
DCX Design Complex: Rockza Space Invaders Bag (in Korean)
More on Space Invaders:
LED-animated Space Invaders Doormat
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Last Exit to Nowhere has specialized in t-shirts sporting locations and company logotypes taken from classic movies, like Cyberdyne Systems (Terminator), Camp Crystal Lake (Friday the 13th), Bazookos Circus (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas), USCSS Nostromo (Alien) and The Overlook Hotel (The Shining).
(Via Uncrate)
Who needs an iPhone when you can do like this guy and cram a Motorola SLVR into an old NES controller. Impressive indeed, but that hamburger hat of his tops pretty much anything.
“I don’t need an iPhone, but that hasn’t stopped me from spending the week tempted to go buy one. In order to bolster my resolve to have enough money for school, I opted instead to retrofit my existing cellular phone, a fourteen-month-old Motorola SLVR, with a new case, a twenty-one year-old NES controller.”
Jack of All Blades: iPhone Killer: My SLVR + an NES controller
Nikko will launch a limited edition (1000 units) of their R2D2 Home DVD / iPod Projector. As far as media goes you can either slide a DVD right into it, put your iPod in the internal iPod dock or plug in your USB Flash Drive, but for the real Star Wars fans there’s an even niftier feature: the Millenium Falcon Remote Control. It’ll let you control artoo and have him turn, move forward/backwards and tilt, letting you project your movies whever you want without getting up from the couch.
Projector specs: Integrated 20W speakers, 1,800:1 contrast, 1,500 lumen brightness, 1,024 x 768 pixels resolution, up to 80 inches vertical display.
(And yeah, it does feature the classic R2D2 sound effects)
NikkoR2D2.com (About $3,160)
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These 1GB USB Flash drives by Australian Zip Zip are encased in actual Lego™ bricks. They make sure you know that they aren’t endorsed nor authorized by Lego so if you want one you should might as well hurry before the Lego lawyers get to them (don’t know if the Lego lawyers are as grumpy as Apple’s or Atari’s, but just in case…).
Available in classic Lego colors such as yellow, blue, red, green, black and white.
Zip Zip 1GB Lego USB Memory Sticks ($59.00)
Vat19 sells these handmade journals/notepads made from good old, recycled 5.25" floppy disks. Each pad contains 80 sheets of acid-free paper with decorative borders.
Vat19: Floppy Disk Journal ($13.95)
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Before Commodore got world famous for products like the VIC-20, C64 and the Amiga series of computers they were known as CBM (Commodore Business Machines) and produced other interesting electronics. Here’s one of their vintage LED watches from 1975 available in never-worn mint condition and featuring a stainless steel band with “laser sharp” digits.
Looking for super-soft 8-bit nostalgia? How about the Super Mario Mushroom series of plushies? Both Size-up and 1-Up mushrooms are available as well as a bunch of goombas featuring the hats of either Mario, Luigi and Wario.
ThinkGeek.com: Super Mario Mushroom Plush ($14.99 each)
