Sep 13
In the 1930s like four people could afford ice. The rest of them were in the bread lines. The monocle-wearing oil barons who were sipping on cold drinks spared no expense—at least one crushed his cubes with this replica ray gun. More »
Sep 13
This Beautiful 1980s Radio Looked Vintage Before "Vintage" Was a Thing [Past Perfect]
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Take one look at this old teak and leather-clad Roberts radio, and you’ll swear it dates to the 1950s. But this UK-made Rolls Royce of radios comes straight from the polyester 1980s. The Roberts R900 is quite possibly the last great radio made before video killed the radio star. More »
Sep 12
In a world that’s fat and getting fatter, any inducement to get up and move is both welcome and encouraged. One reason to take a hike, beyond physical health and vanity, is the access to some stylish classic gadgets, like this vintage ankle pedometer. More »
Sep 10
The Duck’s Foot Pistol Put a Firing Squad in the Palm of Your Hand [Past Perfect]
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Flintlock pistols may have been super effective against single opponents because, as Boris the Bullet Dodger once said, “If it doesn’t work you can always hit them with it.” Against groups, however, they were comically useless—that is, until enterprising gunsmiths added some extra barrels. More »
Sep 06
Cassette-Themed Moleskines Are a Lovely Obituary For a Dead Medium [Moleskine]
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the compact audio cassette tape—which was invented by Philips back in 1962—Moleskine is releasing a line of notebooks featuring debossed color graphics on the cover making them look like tiny recorders. More »
Sep 05
This Vintage Soviet Space Watch Is the Ultimate in Cosmonaut Style [Past Perfect]
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With the demise of NASA’s shuttle program, one of the best ways to get to space today is a $63 million seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Show the Cosmonauts how happy you are to come aboard by arriving to the launchpad wearing this beautiful vintage watch, which celebrates the achievements of the Soviet space program. More »
Sep 03
If you asked me back in the year 2000, what 2012 was going to be like, I’m not sure I could have gave you a good answer. So you could imagine how wrong people back in 1899 were about the year 2000. They thought there were going to be flying firemen! More »
Aug 29
You saved your vacuum tubes and you still speak fluent FORTRAN. All you need now is this collection of two thousand 1960s-era punchcards from the computer sciences whizzes over at International Business Machines. There’s gotta be enough data here to start up a game of PONG. More »
Aug 28
Why Xerox never chose to capitalize on the groundbreaking GUI developments made at its Palo Alto Research Center may never fully be understood. But other companies certainly saw the value, and in addition to Microsoft and Apple creating their own graphical computer interfaces, Bell Labs created the Blit in 1982 which was originally called the Jerq as a ‘humorous’ homage to another graphical workstation. More »
Aug 25
Whether you’ve seen it, or especially if you somehow haven’t, watch this historic footage of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon and just think about it for a few minutes. That is a man—a real man—and he is stepping on the moon. On the moon. The man may be gone, but his legend is timeless. What have you done today? [YouTube] More »
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