time travel
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54 Years Ago, Time Travel Was Invented By Doc Brown
8:55AM Rosa Golijan | On November 5, 1955, Dr Emmett Lathrop Brown hit his head on the side of a bathroom sink. As his headache faded, an image appeared — an idea that would finally make time travel possible: the flux capacitor. More »
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Next Year, I’m Time Travel Trick-Or-Treating
5:00PM Rosa Golijan | Actually, why wait until next year? I think I’m just gonna trick out a DeLorean and spend a couple of weeks trick or treating my way through the last few decades. I just need a costume first. [xkcd]
Entertainment
Time Travel Cheat Sheet
11:20AM Jason Chen | So you’ve gone back in time with just a gun, a few clips and your pants. What now? This is what. [Topatoco via Buzzfeed - Thanks Audrius!] More »
Entertainment
The Downside to Time Travel: Your Past Self Might Be a Dick
1:50AM Adam Frucci | This new Funny or Die video, featuring Paul Scheer, takes a good hard look at the unforseen crappy things that can happen when you try to travel through time. Spoiler: hilarity ensues. More »
Design
Vintage Time Travel Posters Shatter Space Time, Harken Back/Forward to Our Favourite Epochs
7:10AM John Mahoney | Dave Eggers’ temporally advanced Time Travel Mart in LA (”whenever you are, we’re already then!”) just released a fantastic poster set that takes on the look and feel of old Pan Am travel ads to hype several of the historical eras we’ll all be hitting in our future DeLoreans–Pangaea to run with the dinos, Tokyo 2.0 where binary is the official language, and so on. LA Artist Amy Martin is responsible, and like everything else in Eggers’s novelty shop empire (pirates and super heroes also have their own outlets), the US$20 goes to writing workshops for kids. Me want. [826LA Online Shop] More »
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Man Travels Back in Time to 1738, Brings Laptop and LCD Display With Him
2:20AM Jason Chen | DVICE calls this the most luxurious office cubicle, but we see the world’s first time traveler. Here’s what we think: Mr. Jared Nelson discovered the secret of time travel. He then packed up his favourite gear, which includes his Dell laptop, an LCD display, headphones, a digital camera which he used to take this photo, his office phone (he likes teleconferencing?) and his leather chair that he swiped from the VP when Dan was on vacation. More »
Gadgets
Doctor Who Outed as Secret Ikea Shopper, as Tardis Brought to Set Flat-Packed
12:26AM Addy Dugdale | Fans of the revivified British TV series Doctor Who are, apparently, reeling, after the shock discovery that the Tardis, the Time Lords’ equivalent to a Toyota Prius, comes in a flatpack. “I expected the Tardis to beam down from some far-off galaxy,” said one shocked onlooker, “but it looked more like some flatpack furniture when it was pulled off the lorry to be screwed together.” Sonic screwdriver jokes below, please. [Times Online] More »
Gadgets
Eco Park Time Travel Mart: “Whenever You Are, We’re Already Then”
12:00PM Sean Fallon | David Eggers can now add time travel entrepreneur to his long list of literary and social accomplishments thanks to the Eco Park Time Travel Mart he recently opened in LA. Some of the humourous products available for purchase include: mammoth chunks, barbarian repellent, packets of shade and anti-robot fluid. More info after the break. More »
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