40 Funny Electronics From the 1980s That Made No Sense

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A machine can be built with total confidence and still solve nothing at all. The boombox was called portable and weighed more than the family dog. Forty of them are ahead, and not one ever made the kind of sense a new machine is supposed to make. ✓ The Walkman and its orange foam headphones ✓ The boombox that needed a suitcase of batteries ✓ The VCR that blinked twelve for the whole decade ✓ The teddy bear that read bedtime stories ✓ The Speak & Spell scolding in a robot voice ✓ The NES Zapper and the dog that laughed ✓ The brick cell phone and the pager run ✓ The pull-out car stereo carried like luggage Look back into the drawer where all of it ended up. The tapes, the glove, the pager, the phone like a brick. Nobody needed most of these machines, and that is exactly what makes them worth remembering. If one of these could come back tomorrow, which one would it be? If a Walkman or a pager still lives in a box at your house, say which one in the comments. Close enough to reach, far en...