I stumbled across the Vintage Technology website yesterday while surfing Reddit. It’s a wonderful resource if you’re into retro design. I’m loving the vintage calculators section. The Casio H1 pictured above is still sitting somewhere in a drawer in my parents house, next to this TI-33.
I was reading about how the aging in Back to The Future II was way off, when I thought I’d look around and see if anyone has gotten around to making a hoverboard yet. Turns out artist Nils Guadagnin created this pseudo-working replica using technology by CreaLev. Though you won’t be using this thing to roll around the street any time soon, it is cool to see it floating on its own in the installation, which you can after the jump. The demo video of the window mannequin is also a cool proof of concept by CreaLev.
Human beings as the shapes that form sculptures is no new idea, but the space that they occupy when moving seems to be. Raphael Perret used the sort of motion capture technology used by filmmakers to produce these great motion sculptures. The sculptures themselves are beautiful especially when paired with the movements themselves which you can see video of after the jump.
In Alex Varanese’s Alt 1977 reality, the technology of today was transported and given to ourselves in 1977. Rather than being designed by the likes of Johnny Ives, they are given the faux-wood look of so many other consumer products of that era. See what cell phones and laptops would have also looked like if they existed back then after the jump.
This isn’t really the kind of thing I’d post on here normally, but its a pretty cool idea. You tell Kayak where you’re at currently, a price range you’ve got in your pocket, and it tells you where you can afford to fly round trip. Today with $250 you could get to Boston, Long Beach, Tampa, and Newark. If you have a general idea of where you want to go you can get specific with temperature restrictions or activities like being around beaches, but aside from that, (wait for it, wait for it) the sky is the limit.
Let’s jump rope!
The internet, it’s open.
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
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