Nintendo being weird and whimsical is Nintendo at its best.
After the questionable N64 gamepad, Nintendo reached controller perfection with the WaveBird.
It was a boring mobile device, but what it promised it did well for the price.
Before Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant made our devices talk, this digital pyramid would read you the time.
Why did the dial-up modem sound that way, decades ago? Why did I love it?
The tutorials that completely blew our teenage minds. Could you really do all of this in Mario Paint?
I Miss the Sega Dreamcast My Brother and I Put on Layaway but Never Got (Because He Stole the Money)
Like so many other kids in 1999, I wanted a Dreamcast. And believe me I paid a hefty price for it.
It survived growing up with three girl gamers, and has the stickers to prove it.
The iPod shuffle was one of Apple's simplest devices. It was also one of my favorites.
I bought my first new analog camera right as digital photography came to kill it.
The summer before the iPad, my dreams came true with the cute but flawed Asus Eee PC.
An aging computer and a stash of floppy disks held the key to my young imagination.
By the time I was born in 1987, the filmstrip projector was already vintage: a musty, overheating box with a brittle…
Recently the internet has stared in disbelief at people horribly compressing movies so they can fit on outdated…
“Wow, you guys have so many TVs.”
Most of my early childhood memories are filled with vivid flashes of new and unusual experiences, like the time I…
The Game Boy Camera might have been my first foray into digital photography, but my first real digital camera—the…
It’s hard to miss a gadget the size of a shoebox when the smartphone in my pocket outperforms it in every way…
In the summer of 1997, the only reason I survived a family road trip through western Canada was my trusty Walkman.