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Lost Star Trek Original Series Script Published as E-Book

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Today’s youth may be preoccupied with camp vampire or camp werewolf, but we geeks have had years of our own team debate: Kirk versus Picard. Frankly, I’ve never been a big fan of the original Star Trek series, I only started watching when TNG… aired and Jean-Luc is still the

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February 24th, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun

Sputnik 0667 PC Casemod Goes Retro All the Way

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You know me. I’m a sucker for computer casemods. Despite the fact that the Sputnik 0667 looks like some sort of Russian television from the 1950s or 1960s, it actually is a fully-functional Windows PC.…

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June 20th, 2011 by: Technabob

1960s Walking Truck: The First AT-AT?

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I always wondered how practical a giant manned walking robot like the AT-ATs in The Empire Strikes Back… would really be. Well a long, long time ago, at a General Electric factory far, far away, it turns out an actual quadruped manned robot was in development.

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May 26th, 2011 by: Technabob

Brionvega Rr227 Retro 1960s Radio Gets 21st Century Renovation With Mp3, Sd and USB

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The neo-modern design of this BrionVega desktop radio harkens back to a sixties’ Italian design aesthetic. Maybe that’s because it’s actually based on a radio the company actually made back in 1965 in Italy.

BrionVega’s RR227 is a modern-day update of Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper’s classic RR127 radio, which…

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April 13th, 2009 by: Technabob

Batman Desk Accessories: to the Bat-Cave, Robin!

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Yeah, I know. The Dark Knight was arguably the best movie of 2008, but can Christian Bale’s throaty rasp really hold a candle to Adam West’s booming baritone Batman? Now you can bring back memories of the classic camp of the original Batman TV show with these great accessories that…

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November 28th, 2008 by: Technabob

Humax Tv Mixes Modern Display, Retro Curves

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No matter how cool it is to hang a super-skinny flat panel on your wall, virtually every LCD or Plasma television is looking like the same, nondescript rectangular box. So it’s good to finally see that somebody out there is thinking a little outside of that box.

This new design…

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March 27th, 2008 by: Technabob

Star Trek Communicator: Kirk to Geek, Come in?

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What die-hard Trekkie could possibly walk around without a communicator? Now you can own this nifty remake of the original 23rd-century Starfleet communicator from the 1960s TV classic.

The modern-day replica offers up blinking lights and sounds just like the original Starfleet-issue communications gizmo. It’s even got a cool moving…

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March 12th, 2008 by: Technabob

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