Gizmodo 
Enter your username and password.
Tip your editors:
Editorial Director:
Brian Lam | | Twitter
Editor:
Jason Chen
| AIM | Twitter
Features Editor:
Wilson Rothman
| Twitter
Senior Contributing Editors:
Jesus Diaz
| AIM | Twitter
Mark Wilson, Reviews
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchanan
| AIM | Twitter
Adam Frucci
| Twitter
Sean Fallon
| Twitter
Jack Loftus
| Twitter
John Herrman
| Twitter
Dan Nosowitz
Chris Mascari
Kat Hannaford
| Twitter
Rosa Golijan
| Twitter
Chris Jacob
Columnist:
Brendan I. Koerner
Interns:
Don Nguyen
Kyle VanHemert
Comment Account Questions:
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
12 Vintage Portable Televisions Make You Glad To Be Alive in 2009
I remember my best friend had a portable black and white TV in his room back in the day—kind of similar to the Magnavox BD 3902 pictured in OObject's list. More »Rad Blaster Mini Boombox is the Freshest MP3 Player and Flash Drive Around
The Rad Blaster does what a lot of MP3 players do—like play music, record sounds and store files. But this one does it shaped like a boombox. Like a BOOMBOX people. More »The Exemode Keychain Camera Has a Loveable Crappiness About It
The Exemode SQ28m isn't going to pose a threat to the Flip anytime soon, but I will agree with Engadget that the digital video it records has a charm about it, kind of like an old home movie. More »iClassic App Lets You Revist the Good Old Days of Click Wheel iPods
If the end of the decade has you feeling nostalgic for the click wheel iPod days of yore, iClassic lets you relive that thumb-twirling excitement by bringing it to your iPhone. More »The Cassette iPod Speaker Requires Sunglasses, a Butler and a Sturdy Chair
Digital music is great and everything, but I have never had the sound blow me back in my chair while I'm wearing sunglasses and drinking wine. More »The Cigarette Lighter Watch: Because Everyone Smoked in the '80s
A lot has changed with regard to our views about smoking since this lighter watch combo was created in the '80s. In its day, it would have been the ultimate smoke break gadget. Check the time...light up a cigarette... More »Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think
There's a great read over at Cheap Talk about how digital pinball machines changed the industry, back when there still was an industry. They were big tables where you flick a ball around, but they were smarter than you think. More »Gifts for Retro-holics Who Yearn for the Old Days
Are you trying to find a gift for one of those crazies who's always going on about the superiority of vinyl, or who dresses like a character on Mad Men? Here are some ideas for the retrophile in your life. More »High-Def Digital Pinball Machine Doesn't Really "Get" Pinball
Hammacher Schlemmer's digital pinball machine crams a 720p, 32-inch display into a full-sized cabinet, and offers by way of emulation 17 classic boards. But I'm not sure pinball freaks are that interested in digitized flippers. More »Atari's Lunar Lander, Made Real
A crazy British engineer named Iain Sharp decided to honor the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by building a real-life version of the classic Atari game Lunar Lander. And you know what? It's pretty great. More »Atari Wallet Is Awesome Until You Put it in Your Back Pocket
These Atari wallets are half awesome, half impractical. I mean, they're retro cool and all, but who wants to sit on a plastic cartridge? [NilesZ]The Videophone as Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls
I'm ashamed to admit I was surprised someone had the videophone figured out as early as 1910. I also need to apologize to that old crazy guy in the park—your Prohibition-era webcam stories may have been true after all! More »Ben Heck's Latest Atari 800 Laptop Could Be His Best Yet
With the help of a GameCube power supply and the malleable magic hands of master modder Ben Heck, one lucky client can now play Buck Rogers and other classics on a positively portable Atari 800 laptop. More »Before They Were Cool: Apple's Flamboyant Vintage T-Shirt Ad
Oh, to be young again, when the minds at Apple were battling the Houston Astros. The fight was not over technological prowess, public mind share or even athleticism (obviously), but for department store clothing supremacy. [Live Journal - Thanks, Anna]The Ingenious and Absurd Converge, Dustily, at Burning Man
People seemed to love our retro rocket ship and crop circle-esque Burning Man posts a few weeks ago, so it's only fitting we bookend things here with a short wrap-up (dust included). More »New Chumby Model Spotted, Looks Retro-Adorable
Ryan Block, founder of gdgt (and possible alter ego of Mr. Blurrycam), spotted a new model of Chumby, the connected-widget desktop companion. He promises it's a little more square and alarm-clock-like, as well as smaller, than the previous version. More »8-Bit Trip Might Just Be One of the Greatest Lego Music Videos Ever Created
What combines Lego, stop motion animation and a tribute to 8-bit video games all in one place? Sorry, the answer is this 8-Bit Trip music video, but to be fair I would have guessed paradise too. Updated. More »NESynth iPhone App Pumps Out Nintendo-Style Chiptunes
Like the 8Bitone synthesizer app, NESynth lets you create 80s-style music with 8-bit sounds. But the coolest part: You can control it all with an on-screen NES-style gamepad. Watch the rockin' video after the jump to see what I mean. More »85 Vintage Photography Ads: From Shutters To Side Boobs
Explore the history of photography by examining the 85 vintage photo ads hand-plucked from the Popular Photography archives. Is that a side boob on the 1937 premier issue? Now that's how you launch a magazine. Scandalous! [PopPhoto]VHS iPhone Case Does Not Require You To Be Kind, Rewind
I'm not really into phone cases, but retro shapes like NES controllers, classic Macs, Playstation consoles and VHS tapes are hard to ignore. More »Vintage Desk Coughs Up Vintage General Electric Abacus
Those young whipper snappers back in 1979 couldn't hold a candle to this archaic computational device, the abacus. Gizmodo 600 BC, anyone? More »