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The best way to wirelessly communicate with your friends in the 1970s was via walkie talkie. With three separate channels and three watts of power, the TRC-99C could be used by three different groups of friends.

This was the Maker Faire catalog before there was a Maker Faire. You could order diodes, LEDs, resistors, transformers, switches, and nearly anything you needed to take that next step to building your own hardware.

The Mark VI Dual Track Label Maker could create labels with horizontal and vertical text. Even better, it resembled a Star Trek prop.

You could order nearly all the supplies you needed for your turntable and record collection from Radio Shack. It was a record collector’s dream come true.

The Photoelectric Light Control switched whatever was plugged into it on when the sun went down. It was the light-controlling Internet of Things before there was an actual Internet.

The $33 100-in-1 Electronic Project Kit let you play mad scientist without electrocuting yourself or your younger siblings. Thanks to this kit, a generation of tinkerers was born.

The Science Fair Lie Detector was a party game meant to determine the kissability of your date. Now we have the Lulu app to judge gentlemen on their date worthiness. Both probably offer the same results.

The Disaster Alarm Kit let you go to sleep at night knowing you'd be alerted by a loud buzzer in the event of a fire. It’s essentially Nest Smoke Detector without the soothing voice.

The Realistic Radio Medallion was a tiny wearable AM radio with a message on the speaker. Your necklace was now the life of the party.

Stay up to date on the local weather forecast with the Realistic Weatheradio. The $20 box got one channel: The National Weather Service. Push a button for the latest update in a monotone voice.

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