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io9 - Jul 8, 2008
Co-ed was “The High School Magazine for Homemakers” from the 1950s to 1970s. In 1966, it took a peek at future household technology. Home computers figured prominently (“Imagine having a mechanical secretary to keep …
Also tagged: house of tomorrow, future housewives of america, fiber spray
io9 - Jul 7, 2008
Modern machinery and any number of tasty hybrids populate “The Farm of Tomorrow,” the last (whew!) of Tex Avery’s “of Tomorrow” cartoon cycle. We’ve already got cloning and embryo transfer technology—it's only a matter …
Also tagged: tex avery, bioethics, animal husbandry, animal mutants
io9 - Jul 3, 2008
Stuffed full of rapid-fire sight gags and visual puns like the others in the series (but no mother-in-law jokes), the whole of Tex Avery’s “The T.V. of Tomorrow” is definitely worth a watch. But the piece-de-resistance …
io9 - Jul 2, 2008
One quick sight gag follows another in Tex Avery’s “The Car of Tomorrow” (1951), his second foray into predicting our future (hint: parking problems solved!). Don’t miss his depiction of modern marketing’s annoying …
Also tagged: tex avery, car of tomorrow, fender panties
io9 - Jul 1, 2008
An in-house tanning bed (complete with spatula-like flipper), self-adjusting chair, three-way TV set (anticipating the Food Network, Playboy Channel, and Nickelodeon, to boot), a disturbingly efficient electric razor …
Also tagged: tex avery, house of tomorrow
io9 - Jun 30, 2008
Here's a brief, animated glimpse of a future city where torpedo cars rocket along on elevated highways. It comes from a 1930s industrial film on automotive streamlining, hence the awed tone of wonder in the narrator's …
Also tagged: car of the future, future city
io9 - Jun 27, 2008
“This is the Atomic Pulse Rocket, a pot-bellied ship nearly the size of the Empire State Building, propelled by a series of atomic blasts.” Sure, it sounds like a bad idea now but back then it was on the cutting edge …
Also tagged: outer space, rockets, atomic power
io9 - Jun 26, 2008
In the words of inventor (and father of science fiction) Hugo Gernsback, the Radio Automaton had “no superior for fighting mobs or for war purposes.” Powered by a gasoline engine and radio controlled at a distance by a …
Also tagged: robots, hugo gernsback, radio automaton, whirling balls of death
io9 - Jun 25, 2008
“Engine in rear? Tricycle wheels? Polaroid Plastic top? Atomic power? Just as at home in the water or in the air as on the highway?” This car of the future was designed and illustrated by Detroit-based commercial …
Also tagged: flying cars, monorail, arthur radebaugh
io9 - Jun 24, 2008
Watch as astronaut Buzz Aldrin simultaneously introduces and mocks the famously air-cooled Volkswagen’s new onboard computer system—kinda sorta like the one on Apollo 11, blinky lights and all.
Also tagged: computers, astronauts, buzz aldrin