If you thought the novelty photobooth idea was just a recent trend, think again. Back in 1976—the year before Atari released its ground-breaking 2600 console—the company was hawking these fantastic Compugraph Foto booths that created retroriffic ASCII portraits of people. More »
You know Grid Systems’ Grid Compass 1101 laptop, right? You should. The laptop you’re using, the laptop you own, and the laptop you want all imitate its design. Why? The Grid Compass, from April, 1982, was the first clamshell laptop ever created. More »
What you’re looking at isn’t three different people. No, it’s the progress made by a single patient, Lieutenant William M. Spreckley, who was admitted to Dr Harold Gillies’ care in January 1917 with a “gunshot wound nose”. Gillies is considered the father of modern plastic surgery—and it’s not hard to see why. More »
The other night, a friend and I happened upon a rather old, beat up photo booth. I love a photo booth. I will never not shell out a few bucks for a strip of pictures, when there’s a photo booth near by. So you can imagine my frustration upon seeing the above pictured text on the old, graffitied-over screen. More »
If you think about it, pop-up and flip books are really early versions of the GIFs we’re all so smitten with today: brief, repetitive animations, often of a silly or naughty nature. More »
A lot of the giant technology brands and companies you know and love today didn’t look anything like they do now when they first started. Just look at their original logos: almost always butt ugly, but slowly grew into what they are now. Here are the humblest beginnings for all to see: More »
Look at the insane zoom that $75,000 worth of glass got you in the 1990. It’s the work of the Zoom-Nikkor 1200-1700mm f/5.6-8P IF-ED lens, 18 elements assembled in a body that looked like a shoulder-mounted missile launcher. More »
Not only was Arthur C. Clarke one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, he also had a knack for looking ahead at where technology was going, and accurately predicting how it would change life in the future. More »
Though this photo may look like a prom picture on Facebook that’s been blingee’d, it’s actually the very first photo that was ever uploaded to the web. The history of the picture—in all its random glory and woeful photoshopping—is amazing. More »
When iOS 6 is released in a few months, iPhone Facetime users will finally be able to place video calls without the need for a Wi-Fi connection. It’s an improvement that was a long time coming, particularly when you consider that AT&T/Bell had offered a picturephone service over 40 years earlier. More »
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