Pure is back with a new retro-styled radio – the Pure One Classic.
Inside those 70s-style looks, there’s the enhanced DAB+ format along with FM radio, an input for your iPod/MP3 player, ReVu to pause and rewind live DAB radio, a tone/radio alarm, kitchen timer, 30 station presets, adjustable bass and treble settings and a healthy battery life.
Take your pick from black, white or pink, all retailing for £49.99.
Find out more at the Pure website
Online vintage stores are always worth a browse and none more so than Sit On It, which has a huge selection of weird and wonderful period objects and design – including a range of Philips 1970s record players.
Take your pick from red, white or yellow, all with speed and volume control, mains operation and a lid that doubles up as our speaker – just pull it off and place it anywhere (or as far as the cable will stretch).
I have something very similar to this and while the sound quality isn’t up to your regular home deck, it is a lot of fun to use as well as being very eye-catching. Yours for £75.
Find out more at the Sit On It website
Apparently, film-based photography is big news in Japan, particularly the Lomography range of cameras. So it’s no surprise to see the country producing its own variations – like the Blackbird Fly from Superheadz.
Every bit as stylish as the Lomo cameras, if not more so, this is a twin-lens camera based on the classic Rolleiflex, complete with trademark top-down viewer. The photos are distinctly old school too – square snaps shot on 35mm film.
Available soon in limited quantities and a range of colours, they should sell for $100. which is around £50. Sounds a bargain to me.
Find out more at the Superheadz website
Via Trends in Japan
The phone everyone is talking about this month is undoubtedly the Colombo phone, but if you don’t manage to get hold of one then perhaps you can be consoled with this Swiss Desk Station Model M29 Telephone.
It is a reconditioned phone based on a vintages Bundespost design. It is available in a sleek black finish and has a distinctive high cradle that gives it an elegant look.
It costs rather more than the Colombo phone, priced at £215 from Design Shop UK.
Perfect for your bedside, the Hi-Fi Hi-Light offers both light and sound at arm’s reach.
Under those distinctly 1930s-style looks is a lamp (with 40w bulb) and a built-in 6-inch speaker, with connectivity for an iPod or via a 3.5mm audio input, any other MP3 player.
Take your pick from a variety of colours, all retailing for $149 (around £75).
Find out more at the PBteen website
You’ll have to dig deep to find a more eye-catching speaker than the Elac MicroSub 2010 BT.
Yes, designed to look like a Rubik’s Cube, it’s also a very clever piece of audio kit. You can stream your music to it wirelessly via a Bluetooth connection (from a phone for example) or just plug in your MP3 player via a cable. Pair it up with a couple of small satellite speakers and you get a full audio system that’s small enough for a desk, but loud enough for a living room.
Just launched, it’s likely to be available towards the end of the year – when a price will be announced.
Find out more at the Elac website
