This & That For Collectors

As you vibe collectors know, the Hello Kitty vibe is one of those rare modern must-haves in your collection. It hasn't been available for years, but there's a new one now.

(I hate to possibly jinx this release by calling it a vibe, but as we all know, many innocent personal massagers have been shown with shoulders or simply labeled such to avoid regulations.)

Bondi Media to release archives of magazines on DVD, including Playboy magazines by the decade, starting this October with issues from the 1950's.

As a collector, I prefer the hunt for old magazine copies -- but I do welcome this trend. Like The New Yorker's DVD set of archived issues, this is a boon for those enough with pockets too shallow to really get the elusive issues in paper. Now I can at least research -- and from home, with no nasty library limits (or fines). These DVDs also provide a catalog list, helping collectors identify old or missing issues by offering a visual record (much easier to snap up a copy when you know what it looks like!).