While technology is rapidly advancing and becoming a bigger part of our lives I find some old fashioned designs a nice break.

As many of you know I enjoy my turntable not just for the music it reproduces but for the physical interaction from playing records and tweaking the design. Installing a cartridge, aligning it, and setting tracking force are hands on experiences I enjoy.

Mechanical wristwatches instead of quartz watches are of interest. Watches have been built this way for several hundred years. Winding a watch and seeing the second hand sweep instead of jump to the next second is fascinating. No batteries or electronic circuits just springs, gears and jewels.

In this day of digital photography I enjoy pulling out a mechanical camera that requires that I focus, set exposure, load and advance the film manually.

These are some of the things I enjoy when I am ready to take a break from modern devices.