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Old Is The New Swank; Do You Agree?

    • kumar.saurav2@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: Apr 15 2016 3:06PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 16 2016 12:39PM
Old Is The New Swank; Do You Agree?

Whosoever said that old is gold knew what he was talking about. The latest fad among the tech-savvy lot, across the world, is going retro

Whosoever said that old is gold knew what he was talking about. The latest fad among the tech-savvy lot, across the world, is going retro...

BlackBerry launched Classic & Binatone came up with Brick: “Kya mazaak ker rahe ho? Ye phone hai?” This was the reaction of a friend when we showed him this retro phone by Binatone, which is more like the receiver of a cordless phone, albeit with cellular capabilities. It’s difficult to imagine and use a handset like this at a time when phones are getting smaller and smaller, and smarter and smarter. Still, this is an exciting phone to own because it takes you back to the days when mobile phones were big (and bulky), the battery backup was never an issue and ‘Snake’ was the only game you could play on it. Brick, with its classic appeal and flaunt-worthy looks, would appeal to those who don’t subscribe to the rat race of five-inchers, or those who are in need of a second phone. Its other Alice-in-wonderland feature, kid you not, is its stand-by battery back-up for a month! Brick can be paired with your existing iOS or Android smartphone via Bluetooth to make calls and access contacts, music and call log. Icing on the cake – it can charge your other phones too. 

The ups: 14 hours of talk time, integrated flashlight, micro SD slot, radio, fancy looks.
The downs: Isn’t a practical first phone, you will need a backpack to carry it . It has an average build-quality.  

Celebs spotted using flip phones: Vogue editor Anna Wintour at the US Open, Rihanna, Kate Beckinsale and Scarlett Johansson

 
In the UK, Vinyl Records are selling like hotcakes: Most of you have grown on Cds and pendrives, so you wouldn’t even know the kind of cult that the vinyls have enjoyed. The recording format that succumbed to the digital formal in the late 80s and early 90s, made a sort of comeback this year, when BBC reported that more than one million vinyl records were sold in the UK in 2014. This was the highest sales of the format achieved after 1996. Also, Pink Floyd’s The Endless River, became the fastest-selling vinyl release since 1997!
 


 

The Polaroid Renaissance: Celebs have had enough of the world looking at their ‘stills and clips’; so they are advocating the use of Polaroid in a big way. However, not of the ones that can print your picture, connect to Wi-Fi and Instagram the images because then it fails to serve the purpose of privacy. What’s also making the self-developing image devices extremely popular is singer Taylor Swift’s latest album, 1989, the cover of which has been designed using a total of 65 brilliant Polaroids with handwritten lyrics at the bottom. If you follow her on Twitter, you would know how her wall has been bombarded with Polaroid prints, and she loves each one of them. 
 


 

Celebs who are popularising Polaroid: Lana Del Rey , Miley Cyrus, Kaley Cuoco, FKA Twigs
 


 
Why the Polaroid demand is rising in a digital age...
 
The Impossible Project was founded in 2008 to continue to manufacture film for vintage Polaroid cameras when the brand closed its last film factory. Since then, Impossible has seen growth every year, 2014 being the first time when we manufactured and sold 1 million films in a calendar year. 
 
 
"The new audience is discovering analog photography. Over the past six months, we have doubled the volume of films we sell and refurbished more than 30,000 classic Polaroid cameras. It is not just people who remember the Polaroid brand that are drawn to it – in the past 10 months we have seen a 75 per cent increase in the 18-25 demographic. It goes beyond nostalgia - it seems these people are really missing meaningful, tangible things in their lives... ways to express themselves beyond the constant stream of digital media. Musicians such as FKA twigs, Jack White and Lana Del Rey are embracing analog photography and regularly using our film because analog pictures are distinctive, one-off, and tangible, and also private. No one needs to see your analog photograph unless you choose to show it, which is unusual in today’s ever-connected world."
 
— Oskar Smolokowski, CEO, The Impossible Project, manufactures film for vintage Polaroid cameras
 
Typewriters are back… for good: In the last two to three years, the two most splendid forms of technology to have gone out of fashion are the telegram and the typewriter, which ruled the office space for the most part of the last century. Though people, who make rent agreements and various other affidavits still use it, the curtains came down on the world’s last typewriter manufacturing company in 2011, when Godrej and Boyce shut down its production plant in Mumbai. While telegram is back as an instant messaging app, and is being touted to give WhatsApp a run for its subscribers, the importance of manual typewriters is being ‘re-realised’ by governments across the world to prevent the leakage of confidential information. In fact, according to a report published in The Guardian last year, Germans were toying with the idea of bringing back manual typewriters for clerical work in the wake of the US spying scandal. Even Russians placed an order for 20 Triumph Adler typewriters around the same time. With more and more whistleblowing entities getting active, typewriters, which obviously can’t be hacked, can be a wise alternative to electronic communications. Take a note Sony!     
 
 
Try Hanx Writer and the USB Typewriter  
 
If you are suffering from writer’s block, a typewriter can really help you get rid of it because the new ones come with an inspiring format. In electronic form, the typewriter has already made a comeback. Actor Tom Hanks, a noted typewriter lover, launched Hanx Writer, an app that refashions the skill of an-old-fashioned typewriter on iPad and iPhone. It’s one of the most popular apps on the App Store. Jack Zylkin, a Philadelphia based hacker, engineer and designer launched a USB typewriter which can be connected to the computer to be used like a keyboard, and can also be used to type on paper. He says, “Typewriters can’t make a comeback because they never left us. The resurgence of popularity is because the younger generation is discovering the beauty of it. The typewriter is seen by them as a liberating tool – liberating from having to stare at a screen, be monitored by Google, or battle to have their inner monologue rise above the incessant chatter of the online world.” 
 
 

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P.S Geethanjali Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Sri Venkateswara vidyalaya,T

Yes,I agree that old is the new swank and even approve that old is gold because we have a lot of items passed from our earlier person''s which we use until now and even some say that we can''t live without them.

Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

Karl Marx rightly Quotes” History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce”. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. But still one should always keep an eye in the past as proceeding to the future .

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