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7 of the Coolest Things We All Wished We Owned in the 80s and 90s
More than 5 million ZX Spectrum units sold, making computing affordable while Apple’s iMac G3 transformed PC design with its colorful, user-friendly style.
- In the 1980s and 1990s, these gadgets were the most desirable products, described as 'on everyone’s wishlist' and appealing to teenagers and adults as fashion items or organisational tools.
- The ZX Spectrum's affordability made home computing accessible to millions in the UK, with its colour display and rainbow keyboard becoming a design classic.
- Pocket organisers like the Psion Series 3a and 5a featured clamshell keyboards and built-in word processors, spreadsheets, calendars and calculators, with later PDAs adding touchscreens and styluses.
- Boomboxes in the late 80s and early 90s dominated street culture with ever-larger, louder designs that let ravers and street culture participants bring the party despite their hefty weight.
- On the collector market, see-through telephones and a limited-edition 14-colour space-age TV fetch well over 1,000 pounds, while The Clapper was seen as an impractical novelty that soon wore off.
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7 of the coolest things we all wished we owned in the 80s and 90s
You’re not a child of the 80s or 90s if you didn’t want one of these
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