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Modern Mechanix Round-UP
July 16, 2008 11:40am
Suffering from HIDDEN TALENTS -- 1950 magazine ad
July 2, 2008 9:02am
I dunno Cory, the Automobile Hot Dog Cooker is pretty nifty.
There are also a bunch of other crazy ICS ads if you follow the tag.
Boris Artzybasheff's Machinalia illustrations
May 29, 2008 7:34pm
He also did a great series of ads for the Lycoming corporation in the 1950's. I've posted them on my site:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/tag/boris-artzybasheff/
True confessions of a Nazi scientist in a Commie gulag
March 11, 2008 12:28pm
Here is part two of the story.
Is the iPhone the Next Wii?
March 7, 2008 12:46pm
Damn, you got the Peggle bug too? My sister got me hooked on it after explaining that her and her husband had just spent a large part of their 2 week honeymoon in Paris glued to that game.
Stylophone Reborn
January 29, 2008 9:28am
Here is a similar device from 1947:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/17/music-played-by-touch/
Pigeon racers of New York
December 15, 2007 10:06am
Here is another article about pigeon racing from 1936:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/01/mile-a-minute-pigeons-thrill-millions-in-races-against-time/
The Man-from-Mars Radio Hat (1949)
December 11, 2007 12:45pm
Popular Science blurb about this hat:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/02/14/sun-hat-has-built-in-radio/
Older (1930) radio hat:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/11/07/music-while-walking-with-radio/
Rolling Eye Clocks -- crazy German 1920s novelty timepieces
September 13, 2007 10:34am
I actually posted short article about these a few weeks ago:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/16/monkey-tells-time-by-rolling-eyes/
POWERbreathe: "Dumb-bells for Your Diaphragm"
September 4, 2007 11:07am
Here is a way earlier model:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/29/breathing-balloon-for-big-breasts/
Space Suits from Sci-Fi Past
August 29, 2007 2:58pm
My favorite is this one-armed emergency pressure suit I posed a while back:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/18/heres-what-well-wear-in-space/
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