#90's tech

Retro transparent telephone

Went to a Toy Show last weekend and completely scored!!

I'm not much into South Park as I used to be but I couldn't resist getting this.

This is the official TV Talker from 1998 that was sold at Spencer's back then I believe and the best part is it still works with your TV remote!

It says different phrases from the show mainly from the 1st season.

I don't know about you but I miss when the show was just about the kids having stupid adventures.

Having mobile touch screen phones and wifi is a nice thing...but nothing will ever beat the classics. Physical media will never go out of style.

📼🛰️ Early PlayStation Prototypes (ca. early 1990s) — a glimpse of the console before the icon settled into itself.

Before the original PlayStation became one of the defining objects of late-20th-century home entertainment, it existed as a field of possibilities: rounded controllers, softened edges, unfamiliar proportions, and interface ideas that feel closer to concept industrial design than mass-market hardware.

What’s striking here is how recognizable the DNA already is — the grey body, the circular disc lid, the softened geometry — but everything still feels in motion. The controllers especially read like fossils from an alternate timeline: part toy, part tool, part ergonomic experiment. You can almost see Sony searching for the emotional language of “the future” before the final form became culturally inevitable.

A quiet reminder that icons rarely arrive fully formed. They’re prototyped, questioned, revised, and only later mistaken for destiny.