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io9 - May 12, 2008
In 1949, ordinary Americans were buying televisions to an extent that some bar owners worried that the sets installed in their establishments would no longer draw the crowds they once did. That's why the savvy owner of …
Also tagged: technology, television
io9 - May 8, 2008
Whether automation helps or hurts workers is on an ongoing question. Here, at the beginning of the information age, a blinking, whirring, wall-sized EMERAC computer (a play on the real-life ENIAC) puts a group of …
Also tagged: technology, computers, office of the future, desk set
io9 - May 7, 2008
The one-person helicopter doesn't have quite the cachet of the jetpack, but it has its own futuristic appeal. There's its appearance in the dystopian future of Road Warrior, of course. And more than one …
io9 - May 6, 2008
Cool outer space toys, rhyming copy ("He lives on the moon, we'll all be there soon ..."), and a slightly homoerotic subtext (that Sgt. Storm in his red uniform is a charmer, I tell you)—they're all part of this 1968 …
io9 - May 6, 2008
All those vintage "How We'll Live In The Future" articles rarely mentioned anything that could be construed as a cell phone. Microwave ovens, yes; online shopping, yes—but not the now ubiquitous cell phone. This 1960 …
Also tagged: technology, radiation, cell phones
io9 - May 2, 2008
Learn how in a mere 24 weeks you can become a word-processing secretary using all the latest computer technology in this 1984 ad for MBTI (Manpower Business Training Institute) featuring Voice of the Milwaukee Bucks …
Also tagged: technology, vintage computers
io9 - Apr 30, 2008
I love the industrial animation used in this newsreel introducing Americans to Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviets on October 4, 1957. Despite fears of red space supremacy, Americans …
Also tagged: outer space, sputnik, space race
io9 - Apr 29, 2008
The kitchen of the year 2000 is the subject of this crazy little film from 1957, produced in connection with the "Paris Exhibition of the Future." Shopping channels and microwave ovens make an appearance, as do pop-up …
io9 - Apr 29, 2008
Ladies! Are you suffering from Nervous Debility, Spinal Complaints, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Numbness, Dyspepsia, Liver and Kidney Troubles, Impaired Circulation, or Constipation? Perhaps you are troubled by those …
Also tagged: health, technology, quackery, jezebel
io9 - Apr 25, 2008
The Mono-view Outer Space Helmet (yours for 25 cents and a box top) was just one of a panoply of mail-order goodies the Space Patrol TV show shamelessly hawked to the kiddies during its run from 1950-1955. Remember …
Also tagged: toys, space patrol