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10 Outdated Gadgets You Can Still Buy Today
No matter how transformative the technology, sooner or later its time will pass. Change is good! It means we've moved on to something bigger and better.But our friends at Laptop Magazine found 10 technologies way past their expiration dates that you can still purchase today.
Obsolescence is a measure of tech progress. That's why the gadgets wecouldn't imagine living without ten years ago—that old Walkman, your black brick of a beeper, and camera with multiple rolls of film-–are laughably out-of-date today. Yet oddly, some products which oughtto be dead and buried are still being actively manufactured and sold as new. Believe it or not, you can still walk or log into a store and buy a new cassette boom box to use for your breakdancingroutine.
Polaroid 300 Instant Camera
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The problem with today's cameras is that they show you the photos as soon as you snap them. Remember back in the 1970s, when you snapped a Polaroid andthen had to sit there and watch as it slowly developed over the course of 5 minutes? By the time that overexposed picture of your dad in his leisure suit finally appeared, you felt like you'd earned it.Fear not, because Polaroid is still making instant film cameras in 2012. A testament to the delayed gratification shooter of old, this throwback Polaroid 300 employs four lighting settings andauto-flash to freeze any moment, reproducing a physical copy of the scene as quickly as you can take pleasure in it. Just make sure you're ready to deal with refills-the camera only works with Polaroid300 Instant Film, which isn't included with the purchase. The camera is $69 from Polaroid's official online store and comes in shades of red, blue and black.
Toshiba DVD/VCR Player
Full sizeRemember the days when you had to rent movies on VHS and rewind them before hauling them back to the video store? It was always a blast to know that if you didn't get back to the store by 9 pm to...
No matter how transformative the technology, sooner or later its time will pass. Change is good! It means we've moved on to something bigger and better.But our friends at Laptop Magazine found 10 technologies way past their expiration dates that you can still purchase today.
Obsolescence is a measure of tech progress. That's why the gadgets wecouldn't imagine living without ten years ago—that old Walkman, your black brick of a beeper, and camera with multiple rolls of film-–are laughably out-of-date today. Yet oddly, some products which oughtto be dead and buried are still being actively manufactured and sold as new. Believe it or not, you can still walk or log into a store and buy a new cassette boom box to use for your breakdancingroutine.
Polaroid 300 Instant Camera
Full size
The problem with today's cameras is that they show you the photos as soon as you snap them. Remember back in the 1970s, when you snapped a Polaroid andthen had to sit there and watch as it slowly developed over the course of 5 minutes? By the time that overexposed picture of your dad in his leisure suit finally appeared, you felt like you'd earned it.Fear not, because Polaroid is still making instant film cameras in 2012. A testament to the delayed gratification shooter of old, this throwback Polaroid 300 employs four lighting settings andauto-flash to freeze any moment, reproducing a physical copy of the scene as quickly as you can take pleasure in it. Just make sure you're ready to deal with refills-the camera only works with Polaroid300 Instant Film, which isn't included with the purchase. The camera is $69 from Polaroid's official online store and comes in shades of red, blue and black.
Toshiba DVD/VCR Player
Full sizeRemember the days when you had to rent movies on VHS and rewind them before hauling them back to the video store? It was always a blast to know that if you didn't get back to the store by 9 pm to...
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