Pittsburgh

Miniature Cities Rise From The Ashes Of Busted Technology

6:00AM December 6, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Broken motherboards, transistors and other baubles are given new life by artist Franco Recchia. City life, specifically, as he is an artist who works at the miniature level to recreate Manhattan skylines using nothing but computer junk made useful again. More »

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Pittsburgh Gets Pranked By 100-Year-Old Time Capsule

10:05AM October 4, 2010 | Jack Loftus

It was going to be a momentous day. A veritable treasure trove of local history, preserved and pristine within a time capsule that was buried beneath Pittsburgh 100 years ago, just waiting to be opened! Then they opened it… More »

LRAD Sound Cannon Used On Pittsburgh G20 Protesters

8:06PM September 28, 2009 | Danny Allen

I guess military tech always finds its way home. Pittsburgh city officials believe their police department’s use of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at last week’s G20 protests was “the first time the sound cannon had been used publicly”. More »

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Pittsburgh Skyscraper’s Morse Code Signal Spells “Pitetsbkrrh”

9:30PM July 15, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Pittsburgh, PA’s 33-story Grant Building famously spells out the name of the city in Morse Code so brightly it can be seen for over 100 miles. Except it doesn’t actually spell Pittsburgh, but “Pitetsbkrrh.” Eep. More »