Vacuum Tube Radios
November 4th, 2006
Filed under: Gadget news, developments, oddities
Before transistors, before microchips, there were vacuum tubes. They were the hot glass things very, very primitive human beings used when they wanted to listen to radio or build a computer the size of an entire building. So bring out your inner archeologist and snatch up one of these vacuum-tube radios.
The radio uses three 30-year-old vacuum tubes, hand-made antenna, variable condenser to tune the station (very common in the 1920s) and the circuit is based on a 60-year-old design.
Sold only in Japan for $83.
via FAR EAST GIZMOS
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