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.
One of the most common concepts for the future has long been the wheel-free automobile, even before it was popularized in Back to the Future - but always, these looked almost shockingly familiar ...
Things have come a long way since the world's first vending machine - a 2000-year-old device that dispensed holy water when a coin was slipped into a slot. Some now-vintage models dispense art or ...
As you may recall (and please, forgive the pun), pay phones used to be ubiquitous - in many places they remain a physical presence, but without a use. As Banksy's work (above) points out, their ...
Ever wanted to be the next companion of Doctor Who, wished you could ride along on the Firefly-class Serenity, or wondered what it would be like to cruise the galaxy with the rebels (or imperial ...
In the broad scheme of audio technology, cassette tapes had a rather rough go of things. Their predecessor, the vinyl record, had been around for decades before and even now continues to be a ...
At some point the science of flight became a reality. At the time, it seemed like such a futuristic shift, however, that imaginations continued to soar forward into the future, thinking about ...
Quick, when was the mobile phone invented? If you thought it was the 1980s, when businessmen lugged them around in giant briefcases, think again. The earliest version of a mobile phone was first ...
What would New York have looked like, if the futuristic visions of innovative thinkers in the late-19th to mid-20th century had become reality? Midtown Manhattan could have been enclosed within a ...
Eager to endow Apple's mass-produced modern marvel with some timeless personality? Retro iPhone accessories give your cutting-edge cellular communicator old-fashioned style to complement its right ...
There are some inventions that will forever be remembered fondly even after they are made obsolete by other technology. And then there are the other ones...the failures that never quite took off, ...
