Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 3:11pm
In 1910, a French illustrator named Villemard took a crack at predicting what the year 2000 would be like, and he came up with some wild, wild stuff.
retro stories
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 6:00am
Looking at this hilariously anachronistic ad for a Glide-O-Bike from 1931, one imagines a whole hell of a lot of disappointed Depression-era kids. And possibly a few injured ones.
Monday, April 26, 2010 - 5:39am
Etsy store Freeland Studios has one hell of a way to display your iPhone: on a handcrafted resin dock made to look like a chunky retro black phone. It looks like it'd be right at home on the desk of...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:44am
This beauty is Robolux Studio's Flower Power Lamp, a one-of-a-kind object made from an electric fan from the 1940s. The inside has been painted orange, giving the light it produces a wonderful warm quality, and it creates a distinctive light...
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 7:15am
While this TV is nearly 70 years old, it still looks strangely futuristic. A one-of-a-kind, handmade specimen, it features a 5.5-inch monochrome CRT screen and looks like it mated with a desk lamp at some point. It doesn't have any...
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 6:44am
Oh boy, I remember calculator watches. With all the fancy handheld gadgetry today, there's really no reason for them, though even back in their heyday they didn't really set the world on fire. That's not what the Cal-Q-Tek 2000 is...
Friday, March 5, 2010 - 4:06am
Well, here's a design we've instantly fallen in love with. It's the Monochron, a Pong-playing clock by engineer and retronaut Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries. The Monochron comes as a kit you put together yourself, and after some simple soldering...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 11:49am
Austin's Adam Voorhes goes through some interesting journeys through his photography. Lucky for us geeks, one such adventure intersected with the gadget world. Voorhes took apart and shot — in quite the dramatic fashion — some retro gadgetry including an...
Monday, January 25, 2010 - 12:59am
Wow. Just when we thought tech couldn't get any more futuristic, along comes a Korean megacorp to blow that idea out of our brains. LG, the brains behind skinny TVs and the like, has designed a retro-style telly (never has...
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- apple
- Apple Tablet
- barnes and noble
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- courier
- DVICE gift guide
- ebooks
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- Future Tech
- futurism
- futurist
- Hannukah
- holiday gift guide
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 5:14am
As any small child — or just impatient gadget-lover — knows, waiting is the hardest part. And while waiting until the holidays to open your loot is one thing, there are those items that will require just a bit more...
