Super 8 cameras, BlackBerrys among retro gadgets made modern


  • TECH
  • Monday, 22 Jan 2018

A man walks by a photo of a Kodak Super 8 hybrid movie camera outside the Kodak booth at CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 9, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / DAVID MCNEW

Even as we flirt with Jetsons-style bathrooms hooked up to digital assistants and breakneck races of flying “cars,” one thing remains clear: Despite ever-improving technology, our nostalgia-tuned minds remain glued to the rear-view mirror. 

Last week at CES, Kodak made that abundantly clear when it revealed footage from its hotly-anticipated reboot of the Super 8 camera, which revolutionised amateur filmmaking when originally released in 1965. 

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