Retro Telephones - £59.95
Back in the days when shag pile carpets were the height of fashion and the average wardrobe contained enough nylon to down a 
zeppelin, the only way to call that sapphic focus of your attention in the UK was via a GPO-supplied telephone.
There were no phone stores or communication companies vying for your money. You used what you were given. And what you were given was generally a marvellously clunky (genuine) plastic contraption with an ugh-ugh-ing rotary dial, shrieking bells and a dumbbell-style handset that barely balanced between shoulder and ear. Brilliant!
As with most things these days - what once you hated for being completely impractical - you'll now love for allowing you to relive your youth, retro is no longer old-fashioned, retro is positively chic! Lovingly refurbished internally and ready for use with modern phone sockets, each stylish hunk of plastic is guaranteed to bring the memories flooding back the second you poke your finger in the dial and hear that familiar ugh-ugh. You might even remember a few numbers from the good old days and start answering the phone by reciting your telephone number, in your best nasal operator voice.
With their bone-shaking bell ringers and curvaceous geek-chic styling, Retro Telephones laugh in the fascias of modern slimline phones with weedy ringtones. They also look seriously cool in any scenario, in a dial-'i'-for-irony kind of way. Best of all you can slam the handset down, Jack Reagan style, wind the curly-wurly cable around your hand or pace around the room gripping the gigantic base unit. Oh yes, you can also have a good old chinwag. It's good to talk; it's even better doing it on a Retro Telephone. Ugh-ughhhh...
Buy your retro phone here!
USB Turntable - £119.95
If you're anything like us you have stashed away somewhere a not so retro-chic record player which you break out occasionally to overdose on your dust-infested, loft-banished vinyl collection. How we wish we could transfer our Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five album onto the PC. Well guess what? You can! That's right vinyl lovers, thanks to the ingenious USB Turntable you can put all your LPs, 12"s and singles straight into your digital library.
Simply plug this fantastic little turntable into the nearest USB port, fire up the idiot-proof Audacity software and start converting your collection. 
Forget about clumsy adaptors, special drivers and mismatched software. It's easier than, er…well, it's easier than putting a record on!
And if you fancy yourself a wee bit of a DJ who likes mixing it on the decks with vinyl you can put all your bangin' attempts on to your PC for transfer to CD or MP3.
Featuring adjustable gain, anti-skating control and high-speed vinyl recording function, the belt-driven USB Turntable can also be connected to any home stereo with CD or auxiliary inputs. This means you can spin your records through your regular system when you're not converting them.
Whether it's Whitesnake or Wham, Spandau or Sparks, the USB Turntable can convert it. And it doesn't matter what speed the records in question are - this Turntable can handle both 33s and 45s. So why not forget about buying any new music for a while and rediscover your vinyl. All right? Not 'arf!
Buy your USB Turntable here!
Foam Factory - £69.95
Wild holidays are great, aren't they? Cast your mind back to that banging-dance-week in Ibiza and the nostalgia notches just keep rising. Fancy recreating it all at home? Now you can because, let's face it a jug of sangria goes a long way. Add a bit of sunshine, a few scantily-clad guests, some top tunes and finally masses of foam in which to frolic around.
Foam? Where am I going to get foam? Well, you don't shove a bunch of straws in your mouth and blow into a bowl of washing-up water (which may be fun for about 3 seconds but then you have to breathe!); no, you purchase the ingenious Foam Factory.
Despite its cartoony appearance, this colourful contraption is capable of creating up to 55 cubic feet of foam in only three minutes. Simply pour in some tear-free shampoo (supplied), add water, plug it in and watch in awe as the Foam Factory starts to spew suds at an incredible rate. You and your friends will be engulfed in foam before you can shout 'pass the loofah'.
Just imagine the fun you'll have frolicking around in all that lovely foam on a balmy summer evening as you boogie on down to your favourite anthems. If this miraculous machine doesn't make you the most popular party woman in town we don't know what will.
Get ordering and soap up your soirées before the whole world goes full-on foam-party crazy.
Buy your Foam Factory here!
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