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Play Music Old School Style with the iRecorder

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Relax, are you hungry like the wolf for some cool new gadgets? Well then take on me with the iRecorder. It might take your breath away with it’s old school 80′s tape recorder looks but it’s true colors are that it’s really a kickin’ speaker that will take you to funkytown all night long, all night. Against all odds, instead of a cassette tape, you plug your iPhone into the 3.5mm jack inside the case and rock that foolish beat.
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Hello, is it a handle you’re looking for? Come on Eileen, the handle on the iRecorder extends out so you can be walking like an Egyptian or flashdancing like a maniac with it. You can have faith faith faith sweet child o’ mine that you don’t need an invisible touch to press the working physical buttons to control your music from 9 to 5 even if you come from the land down under. That’s the power of love- or a few batteries. Sweet dreams are made of this thriller, truly.

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Galaga Pint Glasses

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Oh Galaga, you evil quarter eating game. Well at least I can drown out my sorrows at losing all those quarters in my youth with a set of these Galaga Pint Glasses. You might say that Galaga was nothing but a Space Invaders ripoff and to that we say….you’re probably right to some extent, but it was a very good ripoff. Best of the second best if you will. I’ll drink to that.

Galaga Pint Glasses

Early Nintendo brochure shows us the childhood we could have had, the knitting we never did

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Early Nintendo brochure shows us the childhood we could have had, the knitting we never did

We all know what the Nintendo Entertainment System looks like, right? Well, if a butterfly had flapped its wings in a slightly different manner, things could have apparently been quite different. Former Director of Game Creative at Nintendo America, Howard Phillips, has recently uploaded some images taken from a 1985 brochure for a precursor to the NES called the AVS (Advanced Video System). While a glance at some vintage-looking hardware that never came to be -- such as the wireless controller -- is a retrospective tease, it was the marketing material from a couple of years later that really snags the attention: an advert for a knitting machine peripheral. The image shows the NES we know and love, with a controller in a dock, attached to a knitting device turning-out what we can only assume are some leg-warmers. Not wanting to alienate its largely male audience, however, the tagline reads "Now you're knitting with power." Given that it never came to market, though, we guess that not quite everything was acceptable in the eighties.

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Early Nintendo brochure shows us the childhood we could have had, the knitting we never did originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Heat Changing Tetris Mug

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Tetris mug! When you put a hot beverage into this Heat Changing Tetris Mug, the board changes. And it changes to the perfect scenario too- the long straight piece coming in to knock four lines off at once. Bonus! No you can’t actually play Tetris on the mug (without gluing your smartphone to the side- not recommended) but since it’s officially licensed, it looks just like the real deal and not some knock-off. This ceramic mug holds 12 ounces and features the same Tetris image on both side. Cool..err hot.

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Heat Changing Tetris Mug


Netflix signs multi-year deal with Hasbro — and knowing is half the battle

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Netflix signs up Hasbro with multi-year deal: and knowing is half the battle

Hasbro, the toy-maker behind pervasive long-form ads shows for kids like Transformers, GI Joe and My Little Pony, is bringing its back-catalog to Netflix. While the '80s hits will arrive some time in 2012, both Transformer Prime and the more recent Pony-based adventures are already available to stream now. Get a full list of the Hasbro heritage being readied for streaming in Netflix's proud press release below.

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Netflix signs multi-year deal with Hasbro -- and knowing is half the battle originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Netflix signs multi-year deal with Hasbro — and knowing is half the battle

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Netflix signs up Hasbro with multi-year deal: and knowing is half the battle

Hasbro, the toy-maker behind pervasive long-form ads shows for kids like Transformers, GI Joe and My Little Pony, is bringing its back catalogue to Netflix. While the '80s hits will arrive some time in 2012, both Transformer Prime and the more recent Pony-based adventures are already available to stream now. Get a full list of the Hasbro heritage being readied for streaming in Netflix's proud press release below.

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Netflix signs multi-year deal with Hasbro -- and knowing is half the battle originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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