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io9 - Sep 11, 2008
Here’s a clip from a cartoon I’ve never seen before: Dodo-The Kid From Outer Space. Produced in 1964 and originally broadcast in the L.A. area, Dodo was an alien child with a half-bird, half-computer friend named Compy …
Also tagged: cartoons, outer space, dodo the kid from outer space
io9 - Sep 10, 2008
Built of steel and aluminum, without running boards or fenders, and using buttons instead of door handles, the 1938 Phantom Corsair was the last word in long, low, streamlined art deco modernity on wheels. But when …
Also tagged: car of tomorrow, phantom corsair, the young in heart
io9 - Sep 9, 2008
Oh, don’t get your panties in a bunch—I think we all agree that Hanna-Barbera takes a distant third in the great Chuck Jones/Tex Avery smackdown. But seriously, an interracial all-girl rock band flies through outer …
Also tagged: outer space, josie and the pussycats, girl groups, shit stirring space cats
io9 - Sep 8, 2008
The Eichler X-100 model home was opened to the public in October 1956. Built in San Mateo, California, and bearing the name of dairy-wholesaler-turned-developer Joseph Eichler, the house was a tribute to modern design …
Also tagged: home of the future, joseph eichler, eichler x 100
io9 - Sep 4, 2008
In the early twentieth century, Edgar Rice Burroughs compiled a glossary of the terms used in his Martian novels. In 1957, Walt Disney created an animated version of it for his "Mars and Beyond" TV show (we've already …
Also tagged: edgar rice burroughs, vip, mars and beyond, virgil franklin partch
io9 - Sep 3, 2008
Shortly before the end of the Second World War, Army-Navy Screen Magazine (a newsreel version of what would later be called a television news magazine) began a new series on the world of tomorrow to be faced by …
Also tagged: futurama, city of tomorrow
io9 - Sep 2, 2008
In November 1953, teen girl magazine Seventeen offered readers an outer-space-themed issue that featured an article (“It Could Happen Tomorrow”) by actor Richard Carlson, who appeared in that year’s It Came From Outer …
Also tagged: seventeen, beauty tips, jezebel, girl astronauts
io9 - Aug 22, 2008
Here, in a rare filmed performance from 1967, the brilliant political satirist, songwriter, and math professor Tom Lehrer performs his “tribute” to rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and his questionable past …
Also tagged: cold war, wernher von braun, tom lehrer
io9 - Aug 21, 2008
It's a common phenomenon, at least in commercials and sitcoms: Mom stresses out while her family has fun. In this ad from the early 1980s, a Martian family has loads of fun playing the Atari 2600 version of …
Also tagged: games, asteroids, mean moms, atari anonymous
io9 - Aug 20, 2008
The Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair was designed by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis as a "container" for a sound and light show highlighting the company's technology. The walls were adorned with 350 …
Also tagged: le corbusier, freakiness, edgar varese, 1958 brussels world s fair, poeme electronique