Behind The Scenes Of The 2010 Times Square New Year’s Ball

The 2010 Times Square New Year’s Ball is ready to go. They saved money and didn’t add any LEDs, but they added new stunning Waterford clink-clink glass panels. Here’s the insider look on how they did it, and why.


May 8, 2009
Gadgets

Sony Product Timeline Is a Glorious Gadget History Lesson

They have been in comma lately but, through 53 years of history, Sony has created some of the most amazing gadget in history. Some of them changed the world forever. Here you have them all.


April 18, 2009

How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats

Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we’ve been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we’ve done it to date:


October 13, 2008
Mobile

25 Anniversary of the First Commercial Mobile Phone Call Timeline

Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the first commercial mobile phone call in history. On October 13th 1983, Ameritech executive Bob Barnett called the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell using the now legendary and bricktastic Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. Here’s our modified mobile phone timeline highlighting this historic event. You can click on it to see the full 2,300 pixel wide version.


September 11, 2008

7 Years of iPod: What You Paid and What You Got

With yesterday’s refresh to Apple’s iPod line, it was hard not to feel at least a little deja vu. I’ve been following new iPod announcements—which often come more than once a year—since 2001, when the first iPod showed up in stores for an astronomical US$399.