The Cultured Girl

With those colorful KitchenAid mixers all the rage, I wondered how long it would take for the retro appliance trend to expand beyond the kitchen. After all, one problem with modern electronics is that they’re sorely lacking in character. I mean, iPods and plasma TVs are sleek, modern, and easy to use, but they don’t have much decorative charm. For nostalgic TVs, there are several cool models from Predicta, which look like 1950s versions but are entirely modern in their engineering; you can easily hook one up to a DVD player, for instance. Now Engagdet has turned me onto the SpeckTone, a retro iPod speaker set from Speck Products (in avocado green, no less). Sure beats a pair of cheap black computer speakers from CompUSA.