Classic Home Toys Installment #18 XRCD Lives On

XRCD is an acronym for extended resolution compact disc. The format was developed by JVC Corporation in 1995 and sought to offer to audiophiles a superior sounding cd which was playable without having to upgrade or purchase new home stereo equipment. In developing...

Classic Home Toys #17 – Make Way for SACD

Classic Home Toys Installment #17 Make Way for SACD Author: James Russo The entire SACD concept is a odd one to be put in the Classic Home Toys column because the format has been around for quite some time without catching one and even seems to be teetering on the...

Classic Home Toys #15 – Palm Pilot

Before people were able to store hundred of numbers in the memory of their cellular phones and before PDA’s could also double as cell phone, a small company named Palm, then a division of U.S. Robotics, introduced the world first PDA, a catchy acronym for...

The Watch of the Future

When Timex Corporation released the Timex Datalink watch in 1994, the Cellular phone craze was still a good six years away and PDA’s were the size of laptop computers. The Timex Datalink watch was truly a watch of the future in that the datalink was the first...