Retro

Perhaps you like the idea of a cafe-racer-style motorbike, but you don't want an actual big, fast, scary motorcycle. Well, you might want to check out the Beachman '64, as we're told that it's legally considered an ebike – in Canada, at least.

After revealing a battery-electric reworking of the iconic Isetta bubble car in 2016, Micro Mobility Systems AG has returned to the auto show floor to launch the series version of the Microlino 2.0, along with a three-wheeled electric people mover.

Sometimes you just want to wrap yourself in the comfortable nostalgia of classic games. Modernized mini consoles help if you don’t have the originals, and the latest is the Amiga 500 Mini, which comes loaded with 25 games and the option to add more.

Following the shortlist earlier this year, the winner of the Cuprinol 2021 Shed of the Year competition has been declared. Model and social media influencer Danielle Zarb-Cousin won with her 1970s-inspired cocktail bar, Creme de Menthe.

Over the last year or so, Sam Battle has been gathering together interesting tech and gadgetry from the past and musical curiosities of his own design for a collection known as This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete, which is now open for business.

An electronics hacker known as befinitiv recently posted a YouTube video demonstrating how he converted an old Cosina Hi-Lite 35-mm film camera into a digital snapper, using 3D printing, a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a Pi camera module.

Nikon has added another mirrorless camera to its growing line of Z-mount models. The retro-gorgeous Z fc DX-format mirrorless camera shares much of its feature set with the Z 50 model, but with a few useful additions.

Paul Reed Smith Guitars has tapped into the Woodstock spirit for two new rig additions to its HXDA family, the PRS HX100 and HX50 amplifiers, which are inspired by a newly documented Jimi Hendrix touring amp circuit.

Super73 has been carving out its own little corner of the ebike market with a head-turning line of vintage two-wheelers built for on-road fun and off-road adventure, and has now added a lighter, smarter model with a swappable battery.

In development for over five years, and originally due for production in 2019 before a complete redesign put the brakes on that timeline, the third prototype of the Microlino electric bubblecar from Micro Mobility Systems AG has now been completed.

A Brit game developer and publisher from the 1980s has pedaled into the ebike space with a stylish ride named after one of its most popular games. The Paperboy by Elite Systems/Elite EV has launched for under a grand on Indiegogo.

The Icons Collection is a new annual program of very limited-edition motorcycles, designed to explore and celebrate Harley-Davidson’s tradition, and inaugurated with the Revival of a 1969 classic; the Electra Glide.