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All Age Verification Tests Should Be Like This

2:00AM May 23, 2011 | Casey Chan

Hey tweens. What is that black and blocky looking thing? Guess it right and you can look at adult websites! I imagine floppy disks, 8 tracks, film rolls, LaserDiscs, MiniDiscs, and any other bygone technology would work as tests too. [FunnyJunk]


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Giant VHS Tape Is The Ultimate 2001: A Space Odyssey Tribute

4:40AM January 29, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Artist David Herbert carved this giant VHS tape from foam and plexiglass by hammering it with a femur. [PietMondriaan.com]


These Old VHS Tapes Are An iPad

8:00AM September 16, 2010 | Brian Barrett

If you positively insist on putting a skin on your iPad, might I recommend cloaking them in old VHS tapes? And if you like the underlying concept of Hollis Brown Thornton’s VHS Heroes, you’re going to lurve the detail. More »


This Dress Destroyed An Entire VHS Collection

10:20AM June 19, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Sure, this girl certainly looks happy in her frilly dress made of recycled VHS tapes, but don’t forget that a precious collection of movies may have been destroyed to create the garment. More »


VHS To DVD Converter Dongle Will Digitise Childhood Memories

1:42AM February 18, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

It’s about time you got around to digitising those prized Full House video tapes you have stashed in the attic. Buffalo’s PC-SDVD/U2G dongle is one of the most efficient ways we’ve seen, connecting to your VHS player and PC. More »


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Rewind To Sender

11:50PM October 19, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack. Bright in early next morning, he brought my letter back. She wrote upon it: Rewind to sender, address unknown. The VHS mailbox. [There I Fixed It via Obsolete]


VHS iPhone Case Does Not Require You To Be Kind, Rewind

6:40AM July 25, 2009 | Sean Fallon

I’m not really into phone cases, but retro shapes like NES controllers, classic Macs, Playstation consoles and VHS tapes are hard to ignore. More »


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The Dirty Backstabbing Mess Called Betamax Vs VHS

2:00AM July 18, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

You think you enjoyed Blu-ray vs HD DVD? Memory Stick vs SD? Pshaw! You haven’t seen a format war until you’ve witnessed the betrayal and bloodbath that was Betamax vs VHS. (Above, the 1/2 inch tape SL-6300 Betamax.) More »


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Video Piracy Was Big Business In 1979

5:20AM July 16, 2009 | Sean Fallon

Back in the day, new fangled VHS technology opened up a world of piracy and paranoia that we are abundantly familiar with today. The only difference was that many pirates were making big, big bucks. More »


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VHS Cover Wall Is 3600-Strong, May or May Not Have A Tanning Salon Out Back

6:08PM April 20, 2009 | John Herrman

Our children may never get to experience the revelatory joy of wandering through the miles of barely organised VHS shelves of a sleepy local video store, but at least they’ll have this. [3600 via Metafilter]

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