Interesting or weird tech finds

Quote from: nintendowii99 on a Winter night

Going to thrift stores and finding old technology is one of my favorite hobbies! I've been lucky enough to find some really cool things. Some of my favorites are my baby CRTs, tiny CRT televisions with 5" screens. I love my ikea spoka lamps, tiny ghost (?) shaped lamps that ikea made around 2007-2008. I've found 7 of them at my local thrift shops.

However, my absolute favorite find is a Crayola CRT television. It is the perfect blobject. I found it in a super tiny thrift store, it was completely new, everything wrapped in plastic still. It was truly a holy grail find. There's hardly any information about it online, so I think it was a super rare find!

I so want one of those Crayola TVs! It feels like it's vaguely in the same blob design frame of mind as the original iMac, which, if I could use it as an external display, I would use on the daily. (I have one in my room!) I love fun, colourful blobjects.

Speaking of interesting old tech finds, one of my favourite "finds" is my TV in my room! It has maybe a six-inch (?) screen and I think it's made for tailgating (never mind that it needs a plug-in power source—are you supposed to hook it up to your freaking car battery?) but my family and I have it hooked up to an antenna to record network TV. (Although my parents mostly just stream everything these days.) I also have it hooked up to an old VCR/DVD player/recorder to watch DVDs on, like in this photo, where I'm watching Pride and Prejudice! It's a funky little thing, but I like it just the same.

https://purplehello98.neocities.org/graphics/babytv.jpeg

(By the way, I really want one of those mice with the water in them!! I'm going to have to start scouring eBay for one.)