Tag Archives: 1980

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Apple’s Official 1986 Fanboy Clothing Line

Will the 80’s style ever make a comeback…If it means bringing back Apple’s official 1986 lie of clothing…I hope so! Wow did this really happen? In 1986, Apple sold a line of fanboy clothing for anyone aspiring to be the Fresh Prince of Cupertino. And yes that is a sailboard, which would have set you

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Drugs and the 80s Poster Child

I had no idea Alf was into bud? Maybe that’s why he loved eating cats.

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Hilarious ‘Be a Pin Up’ Human-sized Pinscreen Toy

Remember those pin art toys from the 80’s? Taking things to the extreme is Lulu Guinness, with this installation from Clerkenwell Design Week called “Be a Pin Up!” As an interactive art piece participants are invited to step up to the device and press their bodies into it, creating hilarious touching and sometimes obscene body

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1980’s Retro TDK’s 3 Speaker Boombox

Remember the 80’s; every break-dancer in site had the ol’ cassette deck boom box sitting on their shoulder. Playing inside those boomboxes was most often a mix tape on a TDK brand cassette. Since then, we haven’t heard much of anything from the cassette tape maker, well TDK is back with a Three-Speaker Boombox set

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Say hello to my little friend – the Avenger now has Serious Firepower

I could think of a few more places to add some more weapons, like a Gatling-gun on the hood, but other than that, Boeing’s pitch for an upgraded Avenger air defence system has some serious firepower. Not much has been done to the original Avenger since it came out in the 80’s, which was basically