Before Steve Jobs came along, we didn’t even consider white as a color option for our gear. We drove cherry red muscle cars, had jet black audio equipment and—for a brief period in the 80′s— continue...
These days, portable speakers that connect to your cell phone are kind of like energy drinks – everyone with any amount of star power has their name on one, and most of them suck. The continue...
It’s amazing we all didn’t die from nausea (possible?) growing up watching videos shot on our dad’s or our friend’s gigantic camera. Seriously, those videos were like watching The Blair Witch Project only instead of the continue...
The milk crates left in the world haven’t held bottles of milk for quite a while. Now you’ll find them in Brooklyn apartments surrounded by empty cans of PBR and loaded with vinyl from bands continue...
Did we recently write an article saying the term “boombox” immediately makes our shoulders cringe? Yes. Did we then mock the get ups we used to wear when we used them? Um, yeah, but if you’d continue...
Flashback to when you were between the ages of six and twelve. You remember pretending you were a spy and wearing those sweet sunglasses with the little mirrors inside? We can’t possibly be the only continue...
When some dude sitting in his basement can throw together a bunch of speakers, some wiring and a suitcase and turn it into audio dynamite, it’s difficult to justify the premium most manufacturers charge for continue...
Not since third grade and that bumper bowling party has it been cool to have things bouncing off the walls on the way to their intended destination. It’s cool for racquetball or squash because, well, continue...
Unless you’re some reincarnation of Andre the Giant or hit the gym solely for forearm exercises, we’re going to assume strapping your iPhone or Android device to your wrist would look ridiculous. That being said, having continue...
At this point in time, it’s harder to get us interested in another speaker/dock/super-universal-totally-versatile-sound-system than it is to get us to a dry wedding. Sony actually piqued our interest with the new HomeShare Portable Speaker continue...
We flip through issues of Outside magazine while planning our next rock climbing expedition but until we gear up on the trip, most of our time is spent staring at PDF files and random websites. continue...
It seems like every time we open an internet browser we’re being bombarded with the latest and greatest iPod / iPhone / iPad dock. We haven’t played with all of them, but when you see continue...
Seeing as how everything else is going all “vintage” these days, it was only a matter of time before even photography took the plunge. Technically that would have been a more fitting statement to make continue...
It’s been a long time since there was a product we were willing to buy 6 AA batteries for. Once you hit a certain age in life (post GI Joe/Transformers/TMNT) you don’t even really expect continue...
The 80s are back in a big way. Vinyl is cool again. Casio made a huge comeback with their G-shock watches. Even the new music coming out these days has a decidedly 80s feel to continue...