15 Old Gadgets That Fascinated You

8. Motorola StarTAC (1996)

This was the first clamshell design mobile phone released on planet earth. Motorola StarTAC got a wide consumer acceptance worldwide and sold around 60 million models in its lifetime.

The mentionable features of this phone are; the first phone to introduce vibration alert as a alternative to ringtone, it weighed only 88 grams which was quite an achievement and it also had an option to use high-power lithium-ion battery as at that time most of the phones had only lower capacity NiMH batteries.

9. Nintendo 64 (1996)

Nintendo 64, the famous and fabulous successor of the very popular Super Nintendo. The game system’s cost was $199.

The Nintendo 64 game system came up with something different; it had a unique controller to play the games. Along with the game system the company launched two all-time-favorite games – the Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64.