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Stack of old vinyl records. closeup

Side A, Side B, and 150 Years of Good Engineering

Stack of old vinyl records. closeup Every January, right after the...
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Toys, Time, and the Price of Nostalgia

Mattel's Shogun Warriors Godzilla toy from 1977It is December and the holiday season is in...
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Press Play on My Past: Why Old Tech Still Speaks to Us

No DeLorean, no flux capacitor—just a dusty boom box and the cassettes I’d abandoned in...
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If my robot only had a brain…

I was all in on robots in the 1980s. As an elementary school kid, my mom...
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Innovations from the Past: A Tale of Two Michigan Museums

An image within Greenfield VillageI recently had a chance to return to my hometown in...
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What a 1970s coloring book taught me about unexpected creativity

In the world of art and design, unconventional approaches often lead to remarkable creations. The...
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Mudlarking in London as a metaphor for unearthing inspiration

In the heart of London lies a hidden world of treasures and stories, waiting to...
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Shall We Play a Game? How a 1983 film anticipated the power of AI

Press photo (#10212) from the 1983 film "WarGames"The film WarGames (1983) is a classic example...
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My first robot and today’s AI. Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.

My first robot was amazing.It was the 1980s. One of my favorite movies was Short...
A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image, vintage line drawing or engraving illustration. (A stereoscope is a device for

Virtual reality of the 1800s, the stereo-ancestor of today’s tech

As virtual reality continues to gain traction and popularity today in gaming, technology, and education...

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