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io9 - Jul 22, 2008
We’ve already discussed Disneyland’s new, improved (i.e., more corporate) Microsoft/HP House of the Future AKA Innoventions Dream Home. Here’s a quick tour of the original Monsanto House of the Future (plenty corporate …
Also tagged: tomorrowland, house of the future
io9 - Jul 21, 2008
Let’s get it out at the start: My Favorite Martian was no Lost in Space. The latter had Robot, after all, and Dr. Smith, not to mention cool mod spacesuits. Despite its title, MFM had little-to-no outer-space trappings …
Also tagged: my favorite martian, ray walston, tim o hara, bill bixby, money shots, uncle martin
io9 - Jul 18, 2008
Ahh, Friday. Time for a cocktail—or two. Who better to serve up your afternoon Moscow Mule than a female alien masquerading as an astronaut (which just goes to show they can be both)? This 1965 ad for Smirnoff vodka …
Also tagged: booze cruise, lady astronauts, lady aliens
io9 - Jul 17, 2008
Writing in Playboy in 1968, Alan Westin predicted that in just seven short years, improved techniques in computerized data gathering would result in “a record-control society that could make George Orwell’s Oceania …
Also tagged: technology, privacy, alan f westin, computer snooping
io9 - Jul 16, 2008
We’ve written about elfin outer-space glam band Zolar X before, but just discovered what appears to have been a short-lived video podcast. Here, most recent member Qazar Quantor discusses his intergalactic origins and …
Also tagged: outer space, glitter, glam, zolar x
io9 - Jul 15, 2008
Calling all crafty retro futurists: it’s time to heat up the glue gun and go back in time to make some SPAAAAACE PUPPETS! Just think of all the zero gravity fun a little girl could have with Andy Astronaut and Mandy …
Also tagged: mandy martian, andy astronaut, space puppets
io9 - Jul 14, 2008
Sandwiched between the reel-to-reel tape and the rise of the cassette as we used to know it, there was, for a brief moment in 1958, what RCA Victor called “A Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape.” Looking for all the …
Also tagged: mp3, failed technology, mix tapes
io9 - Jul 11, 2008
In 1977, I was a snotty 16-year-old who had just discovered punk rock. Keeping up with the latest 45s left little time for TV, and anyway, I’m sure I looked down my nose at anything as “silly” as The Bionic Woman. And …
Also tagged: bionic woman, fembot, jaime sommers
io9 - Jul 10, 2008
General Motor’s Futurama was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1939 World’s Fair. Over 10,000,000 people rode through a miniaturized version of the not-so-far future of 1960. Among them perhaps, was a small boy …
Also tagged: criswell, 1939 worlds fair, gm futurama
io9 - Jul 9, 2008
I love “Lost in Space”—the campy 60s TV series, of course, and not the godforsaken 1998 movie. If you’re a fan, you know that one of the high—or low—points of the show was the ongoing battle of wits between the Robot …
Also tagged: robot, lost in space, dr zachary smith