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They don't make 'em like that any more: 3D movies3D movie technology is fading away. Perhaps we should be asking why movie studios embraced it so fervently, when it had already tanked in the 1950s?
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Archos 605 media player/recorderYou think Apple was an innovator in the world of personal media players? Think again.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Honda's ATC110 all-terrain cyclePerhaps it's no bad thing that they don't make'em like this anymore...
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Blackberry Bold 9700The Bold 9700 was a premium cellphone from a company at the top of its game. Does it merit the fawning reviews it collected in 2009?
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They don't make them like that any more: the BMW C1BMW's C1 was an odd combination of car and motorcycle. It seemed to offer the advantages of both, and yet it wasn't a commercial success. Why?
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They don't make them like that any more: the Raleigh ChopperThe bicycle that did for our legs what the Sony Walkman did for our ears.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Dyson Pure Cool-Me personal air purifierIf you didn't like it, it's because you didn't use it. Now you can't.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: a paean to the Cowon D2 DABThe Cowon D2 DAB was a media player ahead of its time. There was nothing like it in 2005, and there still isn't.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorderWhat offers the convenience of a cassette tape, and the sound quality of a CD? Digital Audio Tape (DAT) does. So why wasn't it more successful?
They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socketWhat's the real reason that cellphone manufacturers stopped fitting this simple, robust connector?
They don't make 'em like that any more: NVIDIA Shield K1 tabletDespite its low initial price, the Shield K1 continues to put modern Android tablets to shame.
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They don't make them like that any more: Epson MX-80 dot matrix printerThere was a time when we didn't hate printers. Unfortunately, it was forty years ago.
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They don't make them like that any more: Garmin Nuvi 300One of the earliest mass-market car satnav units, the Garmin Nuvi 300 still has features that modern devices lack. Why is that?
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Playmobil RC model trainsWhy did this splendid toy um... run out of steam?
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They don't make 'em like that any more: The Philips Pronto remote controlThe Pronto offers a salutary lesson in how an excellent product can die, leaving a gaping hole in the market that nobody wants to fill.
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They don't make them like that any more: Sony PRS-500 e-readerIn a market dominated by the Amazon Kindle, it's easy to forget that Sony, not Amazon, made the first commercially-successful e-book reader.
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They don't make them like that any more: the Quad 306 amplifierThe elegant simplicity and serviceability of this compact power ampliifer has given it an enthusiastic following for nearly forty years.
They don't make them like that any more: the Xircom REX 6000 PDAThe REX was the world's first, and last, credit-card-sized personal computing device. Why did it fail?
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They don't make them like that any more: the slide ruleThis simple analog computer has served humanity for more than four centuries. Shouldn't we try to preserve it?
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They don't make 'em like that any more: things you can switch offHow worried should we be, that we're wasting electrical energy for no benefit?
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They don't make 'em like that any more: tone controlsHi-fi snobs and complacent manufacturers colluded to rob us of our tone controls in the 90s. Why should we care?
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7Why half a million people learned to program in Pascal, when you'd think they had no earthly reason to.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: how the Vectrex almost revolutionized video gamingThe Vectrex used an entirely novel display technology that was superior to the TV-based displays of the time. Why didnt it catch on?
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Why is there a vinyl revival?Why are sales of vinyl records increasing, when digital streaming services provide access to almost any recording ever made, in superior technical quality?
They don't make 'em like that any more: the Casio VL-1 pocket synthesizerThis mostly-forgotten device was the very first commercially-available all-digital music synthesizer. It was also a lot of fun.
They don't make 'em like that any more: the Lenovo W520In praise of an iconic laptop computer.
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