Category: Gadgets and Tech

Some of you might remember Jon Burgerman’s modern retro art designs being featured on this very site a while ago. If you’re a fan, you’ll be very glad to know that the prolific artist has turned his hand to a very practical piece of design.

His new iPhone and iPod touch cases not only look great, but may just turn out to be the accessory your friends covet more than the gadgets themselves. Exclusively available from his own website, the three designs are made to order and allow the tech to function fully while they’re kept safe and looking stylish.

If you’re interested, simply add your name and order to the blog post on Jon’s site to receive a detailed email on pricing and orders.

Find out more from the website

So, you legged it down to the shop to get your new iPhone, now you want to protect it? Well, here’s a good way, with the iWood from Miniot also offering a vintage-style look for everyone’s new favourite gadget.

You can even choose your wood finish, with oak, padouk, cherry, mahogany and walnut on offer, all carved from a single piece of wood and engraved, should you so wish. And as it’s wood, each case is unique (as is the matching stand, which is also available).

Prices for the case start at around $125 (which is around £60).

Find out more at the Miniot website

Via Popgadget

Whilst browsing the Brionvega site looking for more details on the reissued Doney TV, I also came across another limited design classic – the Brionvega Algol numbered edition TV.

Like the Doney, this was also originally introduced in 1964 and again was the work of Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper, with an update to the inner working for the modern era – 99 preset channels, Teletext, Scart and SVHS connectors and a 10-inch cinescope screen.

The numbered edition is in a miltary green colour, with details of its number and heritage etched on the side by laser marking. It sells for 1,800 Euros.

Find out more at the Brionvega website

If the Brionvega Alpha was  just a little too futuristic for you, how about getting your hands on a 1960s classic – the Brionvega Doney.

First seen in 1962, the work of Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper, this was benchmark TV technology in its day – the first TV with a transistor built in Europe. The limited edition 14-inch model upgrades things further, although the insides still leave a little be desired (no digital tuner and not HD-ready for example). But on the plus side, you get all the other basics, a stylish remote control and a choice of limited edition casing in chrome and orange, black or white.

100 of each available, numbered and laser-etched for authenticity, but not cheap at £1,400. Think of it as investing in a design classic.

Find out more at the Brionvega website

Via T3

A vintage design gets a modern twist with the Gummy retro alarm clock.

Very much the old-fashioned digital alarm clock, it has a ‘gummy’ rubber casing, FM radio reception, snooze and of course the time – all powered by 3x AAA batteries.

Cheap too – you can pick it up for £16.50.

Find out more at the Design My World website

A stylish DAB for not a lot of cash – that’s the Bush TR04DABRED retro DAB radio.

Packaged in a ‘lip gloss red’ casing, this 50s-style radio has a touch-screen control panel, a blue backlit display, FM and DAB reception (with 10 presets for each), auto tuning and a vintage-style Bush logo on the front.

Available on the high street from July onwards, you can pick one up for £49.99.

Bush website