• By Brian Lam
    Mar 14, 2007 11:37 PM 4,069
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    Gallery: Pocket Calculator Show's Boombox Hall of Fame

    I like today's gadgets just fine, but there's definitely something missing from the squeeky clean lines and soon buttonless faces of iPods and the like. I don't know exactly what that missing thing is, but I know I see it when I look at the analog, knobbed squalor found in Pocket Calculator Show's Boombox Hall of Fame. My favorites include Sanyo's 20-pound MR-X20 "Big Ben" with the sub nestled between its driver cabs; Discolite, with its multi-hued lights that flash behind speaker grills; the Sharp VZ-2500 with a record player in its face. And best of all, the musician's friend, the Sharp MR-990 Melody Searcher, with its built in Synthesizer/Keyboard/Drum Machine.
    I'll be happy once the minimalist trend ends and gadgets get gnarly again.

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    Check the gallery, but don't miss clicking through to Pocket Calc's site for history on each.
    –Brian Lam

    Boombox Hall of Fame [PocketCalculatorShow]


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