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Design
Obsolete Gadget Tattoos Are Seven Shades Of Wrong
4:00AM Jesus Diaz | Living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I’ve seen my share of intricate, beautiful, and even lickable tattoos. These vintage gadget tattoos are not them. Tumblred by Anna Jane Grossman — démodé-gadgeteer extraordinaire and author of the highly recommended Obsolete — these are a mistake: 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 »
Gadgets
Delightfully Eccentric Lamps Make Use of Obsolete Technology
4:15PM Elaine Chow | These two beautifully quirky lamps were fashioned out of obsolete technology, including aircraft compasses, railroad signal switching relays and stainless-steel ink cylinders. Creative recycling is so awesome. More »
Entertainment
Virtual Boy-Playing, Zune-Toting, Laserdisc Alternate History Is Kind of Plausible, Hilarious
10:06AM Gizmodo US Edition | Anyone who has ever piloted a Segway or watched a Betamax knows that the tech world isn’t always a meritocracy. Good products can be trampled by inferior ones, and unpredictable consumers can make frustrating choices (Blu-ray, anyone?). More likely, though, is that the product was just a stupid idea in the first place. CollegeHumor has posted a sort of revisionist consumer history in which a bunch of popular products have actually lost the marketing battles against their competitors. [
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