Feb 26
Think of it like music, but for your taste buds. Confused? Well, the people in this illustration from 1926 probably were too.
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Feb 25
A couple in Northern California recently uncovered a time capsule hunter’s dream: six metal canisters filled with rare coins, valued at about $10 million.
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Feb 25
The term "techno-utopian" is helpful for referring to people who believe technology alone can solve the world’s problems. The term is rarely used literally. But if the financial services company Morgan Stanley is to be believed, driverless cars will literally bring about a utopian society in just over a decade.
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Feb 25
Virtual reality sure is cute. And, yes, I do mean that in the most condescending way possible.
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Feb 24
It’s easy to laugh at futurist predictions. But when they’re proven accurate, it’s hard not to be impressed. Especially when it comes to technology that we now use every day.
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Feb 21
This week in our time capsule news round-up we have a mystery capsule in Michigan that will finally get a public unveiling, some confused time capsule hunters in Australia who really have their work cut out for them, and a Pittsburgh company that wants to put a time capsule on the moon—complete with a Japanese sports drink.
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Feb 20
The internet can be a tough place to distinguish fact from fiction. Who has time to fact-check all those beautiful, weird, and sometimes horrifying pictures? Well, we do.
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Feb 19
Tired of sitting in traffic? Just take the completely automated, high-speed safety lane! At least that’s what the singing, time-traveling family of the 1950s did in this amazing film from General Motors.
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Feb 18
In the 1980s Irina Margareta Nistor worked as a translator of TV programs in Romania under the Communist regime. But in her spare time she secretly dubbed over 3,000 banned movie titles, all VHS tapes smuggled in from the West. These tapes quickly spread throughout Romania. Nobody knew Nistor’s name. But everybody knew her voice.
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Feb 18
On August 18, 1982 the Beverly Hills Police Department took a rather unusual perp into custody: a robot called DC-2. The crime? Illegally distributing business cards and generally causing a commotion on North Beverly Drive. It was probably the first time a robot had ever been arrested.
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