From gin to geriatric care, companies are invoking the Good Ol' Days to foster a connection with their customers--even if the product is only a decade old.READ»
Got a Brian Eno wannabe in your family -- or maybe just someone whose creativity you want to encourage from an early age? The musicians/inventors/weirdos at Critter & Guitari have got just the device for you: the Pocket Piano. It's a ...READ»
Social media -- "friends," "likes," status updates, check-ins -- forces us to live in a perpetual present tense with no long-term memory. Tweets that get pushed down too far into the past get lost; god knows what happens to Facebook ...READ»
Roger Ebert still thinks video games can't be art. We know better. Adding to the genre of 8-bit minigames that are as emotionally resonant as great films, Rich Vreeland's "January" uses blocky pixels and MIDI music to conjure up the ...READ»
Holga. D bills itself as the perfect camera for people who are nostalgic for the blurry, leaky, yellowy photos of yore, but still attached to some of the conveniences of digital technology, which is pretty much everyone over the age ...READ»
Associated Press staffer Mae Anderson wrote a very interesting article for TIME about the value of old-school toys in these tough economic days.
In Hard Times, Nostalgic Toys Strike a Chord By AP / MAE ANDERSON
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