Last weekend, I was at my parents’ house in Connecticut for a family matter. As my sister went through some of the things in her childhood bedroom, she discovered a document from 1996, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet. This was apparently part of some high school handout packet; also included among the [...]
Camera company Pentax wants a space in your pocket, but it’s OK: you don’t need big pockets.
I’ll show you how to build your own arcade cabinet for use with your iPad. Then when that doesn’t work, I’ll show you where to order one. Enjoy!
Digital is cheap, digital is easy, digital is everywhere. Perhaps that’s why some people are turning their backs on it.
“It may be difficult to conceptualize the idea of digital paper, but in fact, we believe that’s what’s going to happen,” says then Knight-Ridder director Roger Fidler in this eerily prescient video from way back in 1994. That’s over 16 years ago, in a world where Aol was still America Online and you had to [...]
It’s back! The Commodore 64 computer you may fondly remember from your youth (assuming you were a youth back in the early 1980s) has returned from the place where old computers go to die, reborn as something that looks the same, but acts very different.
If you’re looking for a nostalgia fix, the 1980s made up the golden age of computer games.
Remember GeoCities? Did you even notice it got shut down about a year ago? Yahoo bought GeoCities and took all the sites offline on October 27, 2009. For the uninformed, GeoCities was THE premiere place to get a free website a million years ago and all the websites looked like the worst MySpace page you’ve [...]
If you’re like me, your entire childhood basically consisted of King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, Gold Rush!, Hero’s Quest followed by Quest for Glory, Manhunter, The Colonel’s Bequest—you get the idea.
The once-magic Etch A Sketch meets the now-magical iPad in what can only be termed as a magicsplosion of magicnanimous magicsticism.
By now, we all know the basics of Scott Pilgrim: the titular clueless 23 year-old plays bass in a garage band, sleeps ‘til noon and generally just drifts through life until he hooks up with literally the girl of his dreams. The only problem is that in order to keep dating her, he has to [...]
