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io9 - Aug 19, 2008
This short, silent clip of Ray Harryhausen's stop-action Martian emerging from its crashed spaceship (a 1940s study for an unmade War of the Worlds) cries out for some Don Martin/Mad magazine-esque onomatopoeia - but …
Also tagged: aliens, ray harryhausen, silent but deadly, war of the worlds
io9 - Aug 18, 2008
Getting to the California gold fields after the discovery of the precious metal at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 wasn’t easy—by land or by sea. That's where this satiric 1849 print from Currier and Ives comes from. It's called …
Also tagged: gold rush, steampunk, rocket ship, currier and ives
io9 - Aug 15, 2008
Inspired by and built in the same scale as Major Matt Mason, the Outer Space Men were a short-lived group of action figures from Colorforms (the same company that made those vinyl stick-on sets that I couldn’t get …
Also tagged: toys, colorforms, outer space men, mel birnkrant
io9 - Aug 14, 2008
In the late 1950s, animator John Whitney (perhaps most famous for assisting Saul Bass to create the opening title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo) built a mechanical analog computer using the mechanisms from …
Also tagged: 2001 a space odyssey, slit scan animation, john whitney
io9 - Aug 13, 2008
From now until October 12, Los Angeles-based io9ers can view architect John Lautner's original designs for the Chemosphere and other modernistic buildings at the Hammer Museum. Built in the Hollywood Hills in 1960, the …
Also tagged: john lautner, outer limits, chemosphere, desolation jones, clifford d simak
io9 - Aug 12, 2008
I had no idea that there was a personal computer with a touchscreen on the market twenty-five years ago, but indeed there was: the HP-150 from Hewlett Packard (also the first computer to use the rigid 3.5” diskette) …
Also tagged: touch screen, vintage computers, hp 150
io9 - Aug 11, 2008
Pardon me while I have a MARF (momentary age-related freakout): I saw Star Wars in the theater when it first came out—and that was thirty-one frakkin’ years ago. Holy time warp! Anyway, here’s a commercial for the …
Also tagged: star wars, toys, outer space, marf
io9 - Aug 8, 2008
Relentlessly cheerful narration and industrial animation are the highlights of this 1960 newsreel explaining how future telephone technology will bounce calls off artificial satellites. In the meantime, they practice …
Also tagged: technology, satellites, telephony
io9 - Aug 7, 2008
Imagine how the U.S. government would have reacted during the Cold War had they discovered the USSR was developing a flying saucer. The EKIP (“Ecology and Progress”; the project was also referred to as “Tarielka”) …
Also tagged: technology, ufos, ekip, tarielka
io9 - Aug 6, 2008
I admit I have no idea what exactly is supposed to be going on in this clip from a film titled Komsomol, the name of the Communist Youth League. We’ve got Tesla coils snapping and sparking all over the place, commie …