This might be the first DAB radio from Sony, but already they have learned the first lesson of design with the XDR-S10 – give it a retro look.
Aside from the 60s-style wood casing and large front speaker, the XDR-S10 has a very bright screen so it’s easy to see outside, a kitchen timer if you want to use it while you cook and all the programming/tuning features you would expect.
Mains or battery powered, you can pick it up now for £89.
Never mind a camera on our mobile phone, how about one on your watch? It might sound like technology of the future, but this Kilfitt UKA 659 Bond-style camera watch is very much technology of the past.
It was a one-of-a-kind prototype developed during the 1960s in the Munich laboratory of Heinz Kilfitt. The watch has a small analogue camera attached to it with 1.3mm-10.5mm lens, a shutter speed from 1/15 sec to 1/1,000 sec and a custom film disc. Oh yes – and there’s a watch too.
A great Bond-style gadget and a unique item too, but with a price to match at a whopping $60,000 – which is just short of £30,000. Maybe that price will come down if no-one bids.
Find out more at the eBay website
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Crosley, makers of the retro Traveler radio, have another vintage-styled gadget with a modern twist on the market – the Keepsake USB turntable.
Yes, it’s yet another of those record players you plug into your PC, so you can convert your stash of vinyl to a more portable collection of MP3s. Connection is via a USB cable (supplied), with all the software included too. And if you don’t want to use it with a PC, it can work on its own as a three-speed record player.
Available now, it retails for $165 (around £85).
Remember Magnum P.I.? Trashy 80s nonsense, with an ex-military man in a moustache and Bermuda shirt solving crimes around Hawaii. Fancy re-living it? You can on your mobile phone.
Developed by Ojom, it’s an old-style platform game for your phone where you control Thomas Magnum through over 20 levels of challenges, scouring Hawaii for known criminals, picking up stolen loot and finding evidence to lock the bad guys away and becoming the best P.I. on the island.
Which all sounds like jolly fun for the daily commute. Available for most handsets, check for prices and retailers with the company.
Find out more at the Ojom website
Fancy re-living the days of the gaming arcade in your own living room? You can with the Voyager, which is based on classic machines of the 70s and early 80s.
It’s a handcrafted gaming machine of the vintage variety, featuring an 8-way joystick, rapid-fire buttons and an internal PC system that allows 36 games to feature in the one unit. And we’re talking all the classics – Space Invaders, PacMan, Scramble, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug – the list goes on.
Each one is handcrafted from a choice of wood, with a 14-inch horizontal screen, a choice of free or coin play (you can access your coins with a key), two-player option and casters for easy transport. The only downside is the price – £1,799.99.
Find out more at the Drinkstuff website
The plain front and single dial might give this radio the look of a vintage model, but it is actually the very modern Roberts Wi-Fi Internet Radio and Media Player.
Modern because it can use your home wireless network to tune into an endless number of radio stations from throughout the world, including the ‘listen again’ archive shows from the BBC. As well as net radio, it can also access the MP3s on your PC, playing them back anywhere in the home and can connect to your MP3 player or iPod to be used as a speaker.
Available in a high gloss piano black, it retails for £199.99.
