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io9 - May 29, 2008
In December 1957, only two months after the Soviets launched Sputnik, Look magazine presented a timetable predicting the future of American space travel. "If you have a life expectancy covering the remainder of the …
Also tagged: predictions, outer space, space travel
io9 - May 28, 2008
Watch Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison demonstrate their "brown box" video control module in 1969, two years after they invented the technology behind what eventually became Pong. Yes, Pong, the video ping-pong game that …
Also tagged: video games, toys, pong
io9 - May 23, 2008
The Zeroids, with original members Zintar, Zerak, and Zobor, zounds ... sorry, sounds ... like it should be some kind of awesome 60s garage band. Instead, the Zeroids were some kind of awesome robot toys. Commander …
Also tagged: robots
io9 - May 23, 2008
We showed you the fancy pants garage of the future in 1964 now take a look at the GM's 1964 concept art for their rocket-car of the future, the Runabout. This three-wheeled hatchback debuted in the GM's Futurama …
Also tagged: cars, concept art, futurism
io9 - May 23, 2008
OK, flies is an overstatement—the UFOoid Hoover Constellation vacuum cleaner floats on a cushion of air, as this commercial makes abundantly clear. Don't miss the row of dazed housewives pretending to be fascinated as …
Also tagged: housewives, house of the future, sucking up
io9 - May 22, 2008
Today almost nobody's interested in the lowly vacuum tube except vintage guitar fiends and fans of high-end stereo equipment. Back in the early 50s, they "cut through the unknown like a rocket through the …
Also tagged: technology, vacuum tubes
io9 - May 20, 2008
Snack your way through the universe with this drive-in movie intermission film from 1959. No wonder they call it the Milky Way—it's filled with nougat and other delicious treats.
Also tagged: clips, outer space, snack time
io9 - May 20, 2008
In 1960, helicopter pioneer Frank Piasecki successfully test drove his Piasecki VZ-8P Sky-Car (aka the "flying jeep") for the very first time—and True magazine was there. According to Piasecki: We already have plans …
Also tagged: flying car
io9 - May 16, 2008
He doesn't look it, but Marvin the Martian is going to be sixty years old this July 24. That's the day "Haredevil Hare" was released, the cartoon wherein the spunky little alien in the Trojanesque skirt and scrub-brush …
Also tagged: bugs bunny, marvin the martian
io9 - May 14, 2008
In 1965, two enterprising students from Harvard, Jack Tarr and Vaughan Morrill, dreamed up the idea of a computerized dating service. Aided by David Crump and Douglas Ginsburg (in 1987 he withdrew his name from …
Also tagged: technology, jezebel