In this Mystery Tech episode, I’m hanging out with CarterPCs and we basically speedrun a pile of vintage gadgets that once cost an absurd amount of money. We start with the Apple QuickTake 100, Apple’s first digital camera from the mid-’90s—back when Apple was making all kinds of weird stuff. It’s wild seeing a camera with no screen, a tiny rangefinder-style viewfinder, and the most aggressive “you need the right-era Mac to get your photos out” ecosystem lock-in imaginable. From there we jump to the Newton eMate 300, which is basically a proto-iPad-with-a-keyboard from 1997, complete with stylus calibration and a surprisingly satisfying (and slightly delayed) input. Then it’s Nokia being fully out of their minds with the 7280 “lipstick phone,” where you navigate with an iPod-like click wheel and somehow still get a camera preview… for the 75 pixels you can see. We also test 1976 Koss Pro/4AAA headphones that genuinely don’t sound bad (they’re just wildly uncomfortable), play Mario’s Tennis on the headache machine known as the Nintendo Virtual Boy, and fire up a LaserDisc player to relive the era of gigantic “CDs” that only held part of a movie. And yes—Mystery Tech ends with the most retro tech of all: an air-cooled Porsche 911 with the world’s smallest CarPlay.