On February 26, 1977 in Steubenville, Ohio, the Herald Star asked people to make their predictions of the year 2000. Most of the letters predicting the future came from 10-12 year old kids still in middle school. What’s amazing is how right some of them actually were. More »
To a man like Max Bill, the chunky, uber-luxe tachymeter diving watch is more than just tacky. It’s tachy. An immoral abomination. As a perfect counterpoint to the Rolex Submariner look, we have this German Junghans watch, a Bauhaus-inspired timepiece that Bill designed. More »
Fifty years ago today, Nick Holonyak, Jr. proudly demonstrated the world’s first visible light-emitting diode (LED) at General Electric. In the process, he changed the world of lighting forever. More »
This thing looks like a cross between a gun, some weird cooking utensil, and an elaborate medical instrument. It is of course none of those things: but can your work out what it was used for? More »
The government might still be keeping aliens from us, but they’re no longer keeping this schematics of a supersonic flying saucer the Air Force was considering trying to build back in the 1950s. Meet Project 1794. More »
Looking at this grand piano, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a prototype for some forthcoming modern take on a classical instrument. Forgiven, but wrong, because this futuristic looking set of keys in fact dates back to 1931. More »
You’ve been spoiled by the five-buck cup of exotic single-origin pour-over coffee. It’s time to upgrade your home equipment. At this rate, your caffeine addiction is cutting into your cocktail budget. More »
Cable ships that criss-cross the world’s oceans, laying lines to facilitate communications, have existed since the 1850s. But in 1961 AT&T launched what was then considered the world’s most modern cable layer, the C.S. Long Lines, which could hold almost 2,500 miles of cable at a time. More »
In 1965 Ford’s forward-thinking engineers actually proposed that drivers should steer using just their wrists. The company’s radical Wrist-Twist system promised a more comfortable ride, a better view of the road and dashboard instruments, and a guaranteed two thousand percent increase in vehicular accidents. More »
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