crt
History of TV
12:00PM Nick Broughall | If you owned a TV with a screen bigger than 40 inches before the year 2000, chances are it was a rear projection model. And chances are it took up most of your loungeroom. More »
When Rear Projection Made It BIG
12:00PM Nick Broughall | If you owned a TV with a screen bigger than 40 inches before the year 2000, chances are it was a rear projection model. And chances are it took up most of your loungeroom. More » 
Gadgets
Four Old Gadgets We Love (And Four We Hate)
6:20AM Anna Jane Grossman | Anna Jane Grossman, author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By, has compiled a special short list for Giz readers, four things we’ll really miss, and four we’re glad are gone. (She’s pictured below, not above.) More »
Random Stuff
2:26PM Nick Broughall | This CRT was spotted dumped on the streets of Port Melbourne. I bet the new LCD that kicked this poor CRT out of its home didn’t blink an eyelid at the pain it was causing. Technology can be so cruel…
[Thanks Christian!]
Technology Can Be So Cruel
2:26PM Nick Broughall | This CRT was spotted dumped on the streets of Port Melbourne. I bet the new LCD that kicked this poor CRT out of its home didn’t blink an eyelid at the pain it was causing. Technology can be so cruel…
[Thanks Christian!]
Entertainment
Bjork the Drug-Addled Technologist Explains How CRT TVs Work
5:45AM Adam Frucci | Sure, you could ask an engineer or designer how an old TV works. But then you’d get a boring, predictable and correct answer. Who wants that? Not me, that’s for sure. I’d much rather listen to Bjork tell me exactly what’s going on inside a TV, because you’re guaranteed to get a much more fantastical and entertaining answer. Is it accurate? Hell no. But is it whimsical to the point of insanity? Yes, yes it is, and I’ll take that over accuracy any day. [Geeksugar via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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9:15AM Seamus Byrne | I’ve seen this happen over the years, and it isn’t pretty if it’s your own screen. But one of our readers shows us a little DIY for fixing this damage in the video above. Almost TOO easy, if you ask me… though I guess fitting a magnet to a drill isn’t the simplest of hacks.
Is this fix old news, or is this one clever SOB? -Seamus Byrne
Thanks Mike.
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DIY fix for magnet damaged CRTs
9:15AM Seamus Byrne | I’ve seen this happen over the years, and it isn’t pretty if it’s your own screen. But one of our readers shows us a little DIY for fixing this damage in the video above. Almost TOO easy, if you ask me… though I guess fitting a magnet to a drill isn’t the simplest of hacks.
Is this fix old news, or is this one clever SOB? -Seamus Byrne
Thanks Mike.
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