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Are you a serious Apple fanboy or fangirl? Here’s a poster that you’re probably going to want to hang on your wall. Entitled The Insanely Great History of Apple, it chronicles the past 30 years of technology released by Apple.
This 18″x24″ wall poster includes some of the best and…
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December 9th, 2011 by: Technabob
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This is really bizarre to me, but I bet some rich Apple geek will snap this right up. Apparently, the original contract from April 1, 1976 that established Apple Computer Corp. is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s. The auction house expects the contract to go for some very big…
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November 29th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun
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Are you or a loved one a big Nintendo fanatic? Then you’ll probably want to check out this new book that tells the history of the Big N from its earliest roots.
In The History of Nintendo, Volume One,… author Florent Gorges (along with Isao Yamzaki) carefully documented the beginnings
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August 11th, 2011 by: Technabob
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Here’s a fun video clip that does its best to sum up the history of video games from its earliest roots to present day.
The 4-minute clip was created by a team of game design students in Munich, Germany, and it walks us through many of the highlights of video…
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January 16th, 2011 by: Technabob
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Can you believe that it’s been 15 years since the original Sony PlayStation came out?
In celebration of the dawning of the modern console era (ok, the Dreamcast was really the better console, IMHO), Sony has released this short film documenting the brief history of the PlayStation line……
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September 9th, 2010 by: Technabob
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The first YouTube video was uploaded five years ago – April 23, 2005 to be exact. The site has gone a long way since then, being sold to Google for $1.6 billion, then wasting countless hours of our lives.
That’s Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube. Behind him…
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April 26th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias
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One of the most beloved and most famous brands in music, the Walkman was the iPod of my childhood. Funny how both names make no direct reference to their products. Anyway the first ever commercially available Walkman was the TPS-L2, which was released in July 1979; it’s blue-and-silver body still…
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November 25th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias
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We can file this under art, or under why?/why not?: Invented by Julius von Bismarck and Benjamin Maus, the Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus “downloads and parses a part of the text of a recent best-selling book” and then, for some strange reason, peruses the archives of the United States Patent and…
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October 21st, 2009 by: Lambert Varias
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This amazing work of paper art envisions the evolution of the mobile phone using the style of those classic Russian Matryoshka nesting dolls.
Artist/Designer/Illustrator Kyle Bean recently created Mobile Evolution…, an intricate set of nesting models from cardboard. See how each phone fits neatly inside it’s older, larger sibling?
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June 18th, 2009 by: Technabob
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With just about every device from cell phones to watches embedding portable media players these days, I thought it might be fun (and maybe a little bit educational) to take a walk down memory lane and examine the evolution the portability of music and media over the last 50-odd years.…
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February 8th, 2007 by: Technabob