Puma is upgrading your workout wardrobe with the RS-Computer shoe. These vintage beauties originally came out in 1986, and were able to track your speed and other factors with a built-in computer chip. Puma says the 2018 model will look the same while…
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These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels
Amazon’s Alexa may be in ten thousand different devices now, but they all have one other thing in common: they’re new. So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timers and do metric-imperial conversions without pulling out our phones, Grain Design is retrofitting these fabulous old telephones to provide Alexa access with no other hints of modernity. There’s even a privacy angle!
View More These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vesselsPre-order a ‘Street Fighter II’ or ‘Galaga’ arcade cabinet (and others) from Walmart for just $299
If you’re as obsessed with 80s-era gaming as we are, then you won’t want to miss this.
Walmart has a slew of 4-foot arcade cabinets available for pre-order and we are here to tell you: these aren’t going to last long. (The last time we wrote about th…
Walmart has arcade cabinet games on pre-order for $300 (they’re over $1,000 on Amazon)
Calling all Stranger Things obsessives, ’80s kids, and hipsters who insist on boycotting all things modern: You know those rad vintage arcade games that sucked the life (and quarters) out of everyone back in the day?
Walmart has legit ones from Arcad…
This is what Netflix ads looked like in 1999
It feels like Netflix’s library has always been online. But before the content behemoth pioneered movie streaming, it only mailed out DVDs. Remember?
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Conserve the Sound is an archive of noises from old tape players, projectors, and other dying tech
All of us grew up around tech different from what we have today, and many of us look back on those devices with fondness. But can you recall the exact sound your first Casio keyboard made, or the cadence of a rotary phone’s clicks? Conserve the Sound aims to, well, conserve the sound of gadgets like these so that future generations will know what it sounded like to put a cartridge in the NES.
View More Conserve the Sound is an archive of noises from old tape players, projectors, and other dying techThe Seine is overflowing, but these archival photos of 1910 Paris show this has happened before
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The Seine is flooding in Paris, but it’s not the first time.
On Tuesday, the Seine’s water level was sitting at 16 feet — the current flood emergency level is “orange,” the highest warning below “red.” But in 1910, Parisians had to hop aboard rowboats, make deliveries through windows, and construct makeshift pathways through the City of Lights when the Seine rose to 28 feet, causing what’s known as the Great Flood of Paris.
Italian weekly newspaper La Domenica del Corriere published an illustration of the floods on its front cover on Jan. 30, 1910. It’s a wildly over-the-top but undeniably effective representation of the city’s situation: Citizens tumbling out of trains into row boats, using wood for pathways and being carried above the water level. Sure, it’s artistic license in action, but it gets the point across. Read more…
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View More The Seine is overflowing, but these archival photos of 1910 Paris show this has happened before