At the entrance of the Consumer Electronics Show This year is clearly written “Welcome to the CES 2016″. But it is likely that some of the visitors to the electronics fair in Las Vegas has felt the need to go check again that sign to be sure not to have entered a time machine that transported him in an edition of CES twenty, thirty or forty years ago. This is because this year’s event which is put on display technology of the future looked like never before in the past .
The company leader of this trend is undoubtedly Sony , which in Las Vegas was presented with an object so loved by our fathers and our grandfathers: a record player . Sony PS-HX500 certainly wants win over all those who just can not get over his passion for vinyls, and in fact transmit it to their children and grandchildren. But the device of the historic Japanese is much more than that.
The special feature of the Sony PS-HX500 is in fact to be able to transform the analog sound of vinyl records in digital : The turntable can in fact be connected via USB to a computer by recording, by converting native DSD 5.6 MHz, file high-quality digital. Scratch-proof or accidental breakage. If the idea of transferring your vinyl collection of an MP3 player teases you, there will not be time to wait: the marketing will begin in May this year. Instead we have to wait another few months for pricing information.
Panasonic wanted to wink lovers of vinyl, although from a completely different point of view. You may recall an old song of Article 31 in which DJ Jad sang: “I am bought 1200 by the worker.” That “1200″ is not a car, but a turntable (SL-1200) has become a reference point for DJs around the world .
Panasonic had interrupted the production of the Technics SL-1200 in 2010, but now has second thoughts: at CES 2016 was in fact presented a revised version of the turntable so loved by fans of turntabling. This is the Grand Class Technics SL-1200G, which will be available in the second half of this year, at least initially in a limited edition of 1,200 pieces (which inevitably affect the price). Among the main changes introduced, an iron core for better stability of the plate.
The survey of companies that have not been able to resist the charm vintage includes a historical name like Polaroid , at CES 2016 he has brought an improved version of its Snap, call (unimaginatively) Snap +. This is a camera that, as the very famous Polaroid cameras, you can print all the shots taken . Obviously, a few decades of technological upgrading has brought several innovations, such as the ability to print photos taken with your smartphone or tablet.
Thanks to Bluetooth, Snap + can indeed connect with any iOS or Android device to receive photos to print in size 2 “x 3″ . Obviously, the camera can shoot alone its high quality images, thanks to a 13 MP sensor, as well as record videos in Full HD that can be saved on a microSD.
If we talk about acquisition images, however is difficult to overcome the attention received from Kodak, with the revival of Super 8 cameras . Out of production in 1982 to the despair of directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan and JJ Abrams (one of his films in 2011 was titled “Super 8″), the cameras are going to return to the market with a mix of old and new that will happy both lovers of vintage technologies that those who can not do without the innovations of the twenty-first century.
The thing is quite evident from the design, which gives a nod to the good old days but with a modern interpretation, thanks to the work of the Swiss designer Yves Béhar. The video will be recorded on film (with a cost, including the purchase and development of the media, should be somewhere between 50 and 75 dollars); built-in microphone allows you to capture real-time audio and recording it on an SD card. As for the price, depending on the models may have to shell out between 400 and 750 dollars (between 367 and 690 euro), a figure all in all reasonable for those who want to indulge their passion as a filmmaker with retro tastes.
To end this blast from the past, at CES 2016 it was possible to see also the latest news of a subject that until a few years ago could not miss in a bar: the pinball . Stern Pinball, perhaps the most important company in the world, took advantage of the festival in Nevada to showcase the latest additions to its catalog.
For a long series of variants that already includes models such as Star Trek, The Walking Dead, AC / DC, Metallica, Batman and Transformers, the Chicago company showcased at CES 2016 pinball Spider Man Vault Edition, a version dedicated to Game of Thrones and one with pictures of KISS. If you wanted to put one in your basement will need to put your wallet heavily : the price of the version of Spider-Man Vault, shipping costs, is $ 7,595 (about 7,000 EUR).
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