March 04, 2009
On one side, big train running at 100MPH. No driver. On the other, heavy duty containers with nuclear waste. What would happen? Boom. That's what happens. But, surprisingly, not as bad as you can......
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March 03, 2009
Damn, we missed the Concorde's 40th Anniversary yesterday. I love this amazing view of its cockpit. Looks like the cockpit in a military plane or spaceship rather than one in a passenger airliner.......
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March 02, 2009
Misty. That's the codename for one of the most advanced spy satellites up there. Launched in a 1990 military mission of space shuttle Atlantis, Misty is hidden by something really weird: A balloon.......
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January 23, 2009
Yesterday we missed this in our look at the first review of Windows ever: Here's the first known photo of an Apple computer running Windows 1.0 software. Yes, Mr. Bootcamp, Windows on Apple in 1983.......
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Not only this Antarctic Snow Cruiser is amazing on its own, with its bigger-than-men wheels and awesome 1939 design but, as you can see, the damn thing carried an entire plane on top. The machine was nicknamed The Penguin and it was part of Operation Highjump, a 4,700-strong US expedition to Antarct...
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December 25, 2008
Used to a thousand inane press kits announcing useless pieces of junk, I wish it was 1968. Then, I could have received this Apollo 8 Press Kit, detailing the first manned mission to the Moon. Forty......
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July 22, 2008
This cruise ship is called the Whampoa and it is stranded in a gigantic pool in the middle of Hong Kong's largest private housing state: Whampoa Garden. However, this Love Boat is sailing to nowhere:......
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May 15, 2008
Zenith pioneered the TV remote control, but those early models were more drag than advantage. Electronic House has a full walk down remote-control memory lane, but first, here's a quick Retromodo look at Zenith's first three creative attempts—and what was tragically wrong with them: galleryPos...
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May 07, 2008
In 1927, we didn't have global positioning systems or micro LCD displays. But we did have the Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator. A map that fit on your wrist, a driver could turn the knobs to scroll......
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