{"id":7887,"date":"2002-11-26T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2002-11-26T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2002-11-26T12:57:59","slug":"its-a-retro-futurific-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7887","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Retro-Futurific Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"180\" align=left valign=top src=\"\/storypics\/meteor-main.jpg\">I was wondering when someone was going to get around to doing this. Telestar Electronics, owners of the Predicta trademark, has started re-releasing all of those amazingly Jetsonian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.predicta.com\/\" target=new>Predicta televisions<\/a> from the 1940s and &#8217;50s. They look like the originals on the outside, but inside, they have state-of-the-art electronics, color screens (natch), and they can tune in 181+ channels. Unfortunately, they come at a price that only Mr. Cogsley could afford (between US$1100-$3300, depending on model).<\/p>\n<p> [Via boingboing.net]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering when someone was going to get around to doing this. Telestar Electronics, owners of the Predicta trademark, has started re-releasing all of those amazingly Jetsonian Predicta televisions from the 1940s and &#8217;50s. They look like the originals on the outside, but inside, they have state-of-the-art electronics, color screens (natch), and they can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s a Retro-Futurific Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}