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Retro Hover Cars: Editing Photos to Float Vintage Rides

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 ...

Sleek Internet Logos Echo Metal-Etched Japanese Cameras

There is something simply elegant about type-embossed metal - in part the association with classic high-end manual cameras. This logo series takes that typology and applies it to a series of ...

Rein-Vend: 7 Converted, New & Reverse Vending Machines

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 ...

The ABC of Architects: 26 Famous Buildings in 100 Seconds

An adult-fascinating and kid-friendly overview of 26 works by architectural greats from the last 100 years. Watch as this fantastic collection of animated iconic buildings comes to life in less ...

21 Retro Travel Posters Feature Fantasy & Sci-Fi Destinations

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 ...

22 Imaginative Flyby Concept Aircraft From Days Gone By

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 ...

The Incredible Lost and Found Art of Hand-Painted Signage

While technology usually makes things faster, it rarely produces the kind of unique and soulful results that come from the hearts and hands of humans. The sign industry fell as a casualty to a ...

Remember Millions of Mobile Phones in the 1960s? You Should

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 ...

Top Models of Tomorrow: 5 Retro-Futuristic Car Designs

Though times and vehicular technologies change, at least one thing remains the same: concept cars drive vehicle design, both on and off the drawing board. What seems visionary and perhaps ...

Dive! Dive! Dive! 16 Incredible Submarine-themed Rooms

Adventuring under the sea has a dangerous and classic appeal. These images of incredible submarine-themed rooms and decor are the perfect inspiration for a crazy decorating adventure in one's own ...

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