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Ridiculous Home Theatre Looks Like A Camaro Crashed Into Your Home
Appealing to only die-hard Gone In 60 Seconds fans, this garish home theatre system started life as a 1969 Camaro RS/SS that unfortunately now has to spend the rest of its life in someone’s rumpus room. The only silver lining is that only one was ever created.
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This Is The 1930s Ray Gun That Shot Ice Instead Of Laser Beams
In the 1930s like four people could afford ice. The rest of them were in the bread lines. The monocle-wearing oil barons who were sipping on cold drinks spared no expense — at least one crushed his cubes with this replica ray gun.
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Cassette-Themed Moleskines Are A Lovely Obituary For A Dead Medium
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the compact audio cassette tape — which was invented by Philips back in 1962 — Moleskine is releasing a line of notebooks featuring debossed colour graphics on the cover. The end result is notebooks that look like tiny recorders.
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Retromodo: Get Your Tickets To The Stone Age Of Computers
You saved your vacuum tubes and you still speak fluent FORTRAN. All you need now is this collection of two thousand 1960s-era punchcards from the computer sciences whizzes over at International Business Machines. There’s gotta be enough data here to start up a game of PONG.