Micro-Cycle: Hubless Bike Folds Down & Fits into Backpack
Few folding bikes can boast such compact proportions (even when fully collapsed) as this umbrella-sized wonder you can sling at your side or slide into your shoulder bag. The Sada ...
Category: Vintage & Retro
The future has passed, and will again – what seems like cutting-edge tech today may look prescient or silly tomorrow. For those fascinated with futures past, here are vintage visions of planes, trains, automobiles and more from times gone by.
Lego Blocks + iPad = Classic 1984 Macintosh Computer
Technology comes full circle thanks to an iPad and a creative usage of Lego blocks. Oslo-based designers Jason Kinsella and Charlotte Bakken recreated a classic 1984 Macintosh computer with a ...
Turn Back the Dial: 13 Retro Historical TV Set Designs
Early television sets ranged from tiny screens housed in laughably oversized cabinets to stylish midcentury modern designs. Some, like a Russian TV from 1932, don't even look remotely like the ...
Retro Rail: 14 Real & Visionary Historic Monorail Designs
There's nothing on earth like a genuine, bonafide, electrified six-car monorail. Or a one-car monorail with a propeller, or a high-speed rail plane, or even an amphibious monorail that can go ...
Dental Nightmare: 17 Truly Terrifying Tooth-Related Objects
As if going to the dentist wasn't scary enough already, you can now augment your odontophobia with a series of nightmare-inducing dental training devices, antique drills and tooth-related ...
Bizarre Inventions: 15 Idiotic Ideas from the Past
For every invention that actually makes it to production, there are dozens of failed ideas, most of which failed for very good reasons. Like the fact that they're painfully inefficient, totally ...
Rare Visions of the Past: 30 Old Color Photographs
The black-and-white shades of old photos can reduce the immediacy of the images, making them feel as if the people and events they captured existed so long ago as to be irrelevant to our current ...
15 of the World’s Weirdest Low-Tech Film Cameras
A pistol that shoots photos instead of bullets, a harness for pigeons, a cane and a human skull are among the unexpected objects that have been turned into film cameras since the dawn of ...
Future Past: 7 Weird Wonders Predicted 100+ Years Ago
"These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible," reads the intro to a 1900 article printed in the Ladies Home Journal entitled 'What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years.' And over a ...
Hunt, Peck & Paint: Chromatic Typewriter Prints Landscapes
Many works of amazing literary art have been printed on typewriters in times past, but this re-purposing concept takes an old machine beyond words and into the realm of colorful ...
