The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, "lost" technology, and the make-do, improvised "street tech" of village artisans and tradespeople from around ...

Berlin is a curious place, a city with an extraordinary amount of layered textures. This is most obvious in the bars and streets, where you see old, peeling walls and graffiti alongside organic produce and gleaming coffee machines. It is also seen in the city's tech, most interesting of which is lef...

By Luke Anderson If you pop in a recent Sci-Fi  movie and observe the weaponry, you’ll likely see some very sleek-looking weapons. It seems logical that in the future everything will look far better, right? Well if you go back to the really old Sci-Fi stuff like Buck Rogers, their idea of the...

By Evan Ackerman You probably keep your old VCR around because of that pile of VHS tapes that you still have. But come on, are you really going to go through all the hassle of rewinding a tape just to watch Labyrinth in lousy quality one more time? Yeah, true, I totally would. Anyway, you should rel...

Did you know that sunglasses were introduced to America in 1929 by Sam Foster? Sunglasses only really became popular as a fashion accessory in the 1940s and as many of us know, some of the older sunglasses styles still remain trendy and fashionable. Today, we’ll take a look at the beginning of...

It truly amazes me how the... well, not so much "classic" as "remembered" A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo Entertainment System just won't stay dead.  A Game Boy sequel was released a few years after the original 8-bit game, but then Boy and Blob were claimed by the ...

Filed under: Kids 8-11, Fun & activities In the summer, my kids have a lot of freedom to play outside and generate their own fun. In the winter, however, the bitter cold (it's almost zero degrees today in northern Wisconsin!) means a lot of time spent indoors. To entertain themselves, my kids pl...

see the full interview on TRASH_AUDIO "What are your current favorite pieces of hardware?So many favorites... As far as modular synths, the Macbeth M5 and the cwejman S1 and my eurorack with Livewire etc. The 808, MS20, Voyager and Vostok are getting quite a bit of use as well. The reason I love the...

   Nostalgic, Retro Gaming and Twitter! Recently there has been noticed a comeback to retro style in pretty much everything. Fashion, interior, industrial, graphic design, etc. Why? Maybe because we're becoming nostalgic . Or maybe because retro represents a generational response by the un...

Have you heard the news?  Sega has released another retro compilation package of some of the best that the Sega Genesis had to offer, this time packaging a few dozens classic games for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 in the form of Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection . ...