Tag: VINTAGE

Robot caregivers provide numerous benefits for the elderly. But, what happens when the robots themselves grow old, approach obsolescence and fade from memory? Some forlorn 'bots are, perhaps, left to aimlessly wander the streets, while others retire in dusty, forgotten warehouses. One 50-year-old British 'bot, though, is actually experiencing a comeback of epic proportions. Tech maestro Tony ...

This Finn loves green screens, bowl cuts, 'Tubular Bells' and the 'Terminator' theme. He also really, really loves VCRs. We don't know why! He may be some kind of repairman, but that only half-explains the VHS fetish. If you've got eight minutes to zone out, watch his paean to the videocassette recorder below. (He's also a YouTube uploading champ, having posted 988 videos since May 2008.) Weird. ...

As gadgets progressively shrink in size and expand in function, reminiscing about vintage tech gear generally becomes a mocking and condescending exercise. Ridiculing the massive and relatively simple devices -- on the surface -- can be effortless, but, put in the proper context, cumbersome and clunky gadgets again appear revolutionary and inspiring. Wired is providing a retrospective glimpse at ...

We've never carried them, but we sometimes wish that we had pocketwatches. You know, with a gold chain arched over the middle button of a sharp looking vest (which we've also never owned). It's a strange sentiment, particularly since most of us don't even wear wristwatches. (There's a clock on that cell phone for a reason.) A slightly less intense, but altogether similar sentiment cropped up when ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Just because some of the kings of tech never finished their undergraduate studies (Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg) doesn't mean that kids today should skip the college ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... We've previously written about what could now be considered "antique" game consoles, along with their cartridges, fetching auction prices that put our yearly salaries to shame. Well, now some guy has sold a copy of a hard-to-find Atari game called 'Air Raid' for $31,600. Apparently the game, one of only thirteen known copies, kind ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Classical music underscores slow motion destruction in Jeremiah Warren's fascinating videos. Toy cars and defunct gadgets get pummeled by hammers, split with axes, and ...

Okay, this is our last post from that Vintage Computer Festival, we promise, but we thought there was something kind of beautiful about all those retro keyboards we saw, especially after seeing them through the lens of Matthew McMullen Smith's camera. Take a look at the gallery below and let us know if you agree. (We call first dibs on the all-turquoise and PET computer keyboards!) ...

Last week, we showed you the biggest exhibitions we saw at the Vintage Computer Festival East 2009. Still, we also became mildly obsessed with all the logos we saw on those retro PCs. So, we asked our photographer, Matthew McMullen Smith, to shoot some close-ups of as many retro logos (and vintage fonts) as he could find on the various restored computers that were on display. If you're a ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/09/24/vintage-computers-get-the-classic-car-treatment-at-vcf-east-6/'; We trekked down to the New Jersey shore a couple of weeks ago to attend the Vintage Computer Festival East 6.0, an annual gathering of serious computer enthusiasts who prepare and exhibit working, restored computers from '50s, '60s, '70s and very early '80s ("essentially nothing later ...

Here at Switched, we're always on the look out for cool ways you can modify your pictures. A few months ago, we posted about a downloadable app that turns your photos into Polaroids, and now Unplggd has alerted us to this Japanese Web site that gives your photos a convincing vintage look. Despite being written in a language indecipherable to most Switched readers, the Web site is easy to use. ...

Thanks to GeekSugar.com, we located this video tutorial on how to convert your flatbed scanner into a camera on Make.com. Since even inexpensive digital cameras produce pretty good pictures these days, and since you can use a scanner to accurately scan your traditional photographs, we're thinking of this project as more of a digital party trick than anything else. And while the folks at ...

Moller International will end an eBay auction for its '80s flying car prototype -- dubbed the M200X -- on Tuesday, according to BoingBoing.net. While there have been any number of flying cars introduced over the years (like this one and this one, for instance), the M200X should really garner the most praise from sci-fi fans, as its UFO-like aesthetics are very much in line with that genre's ...

It's one thing to craft a home theater that keeps guests coming back weekend after weekend, but it's another to create one that keeps them rolling (literally) in by the dozens. Kevin Van fulfilled what we can only imagine was a mid-20s fantasy by building his very own backyard theater, complete with an Epson 77c projector, homemade 6-foot retractable screen and 8 vintage drive-in speakers ...

It takes some serious game to rise above the legions of mediocre DIYers out there and stand tall as a true legend. Judging by the video posted up after the cut, James Houston can now consider himself one of the elite. Somehow, this cat managed to tackle the nearly impossible task of remixing Radiohead's Nude without defacing it entirely (read: merging bits and pieces of the tune into a 4/4 ...