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Gadgets

Your Stapler Doesn’t Have To Be Boring

7:20AM December 31, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

I was one of those kids who always got excited about the start of the school year because it meant a bounty of new office supplies. To think how different 7th grade would have been with these fabulous Zenith staplers! More »


Science

Wheelchair Blitzkrieg

7:55AM March 4, 2010 | Mark Wilson

The Zenith wheelchair, a design by the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Alberta, is fit with tank-like treads to climb up stairs under the user’s own power. More »


Entertainment

How Did We Ever Cope Before The Remote Control?

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12:00PM November 10, 2009 | Nick Broughall

While it’s quite fun to look back at the history of television this month, it also helps to point out just how good we’ve got it today. Could you imagine flicking through all of Foxtel’s hundred-odd channels manually by getting up to the TV? That’s what it was like (except without the “hundred-odd”) before the remote control was invented in 1950. More »


Gadgets

Phonevision: The Death Of Physical Media Started In 1951

4:00AM July 26, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

A recently dug-up Time Magazine article from 1951 applauds Zenith’s “Phonevision,” a way-ahead-of-its-time invention that allowed movies ordered over the phone to be watched on a set-top box, no physical media required. More »


Gadgets

What Went Wrong With the First TV Remotes

2:00AM May 16, 2008 | Wilson Rothman

Zenith pioneered the TV remote control, but those early models were more drag than advantage. Electronic House has a full walk down remote-control memory lane, but first, here’s a quick Retromodo look at Zenith’s first three creative attempts—and what was tragically wrong with them:

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Gadgets

Zero-G Defy Xtreme Stealth Watch Had Better Get You Noticed

3:20AM February 25, 2008 | Mark Wilson

The Zero-G Defy Xtreme Stealth by elite watchmaker Zenith is one of the most lust-worthy timepieces we’ve seen in recent history. Modelled after the famous Stealth Bomber, this blackened titanium watch (utilising a PVD coating process) is specially crafted to keep time without extreme gravity throwing off your appointments. Featuring a titanium strap with Kevlar inserts, hop out of your matching stealth jet, go for a dive down to 1,000 feet and stop a bullet with your wrist—all for what looks to be an increasingly reasonable US$500,000. [zenith via coolhunting]

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LG’s Zenith DTT900 Converter Competes with RCA for Grandma’s $40 Coupon

2:18AM November 15, 2007 | Wilson Rothman

Earlier we showed you the finished look of the RCA DTA800, one of the “digital switchover” converter boxes your stubborn granny can buy early next year with her $40 coupon from the government, in lieu of getting a new goddamn TV. The CES folks have praised the other box too, a Zenith-branded DTT900 digital-to-analog converter box made and marketed by LG. Anyone who thinks we’re being a little reductive take note of the old-people branding. RCA? Zenith? Where’s the Philips-made Magnavox converter? That would complete the trio. [CES] More »