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Animaloscope, cinnomonograph, katoptiikum, lobsterscope, mutoscope, phenakistoscope, vivrescope, xograph—just a few of the turn-of-the-last-century's names for a strange new medium. Read More »

An amazing chart traces the routes of a variety of fictional time voyages, from Buck Rogers to Planet of the Apes to the several temporal joyrides found throughout the Star Trek franchise. Read More »

Old-fashioned telephone handsets and film cameras: gadgets that redeem the present by way of obsolete technology. Read More »

Engineering beneficial computer viruses to protect wireless devices, researchers learn to treat time as a network. Read More »

A business-machine brand and icon of twentieth-century design jumps into the tablet race. Read More »

A teenager who fell to his death from the wheel well of a Boston-bound airliner furnishes an example of a rarity in our time: a truly outrageous act. Read More »

Google engineers send their latest smartphone into the upper atmosphere, extending the reach of the do-it-yourself impulse into space. Read More »

Chris Beckman's short film "oops" stitches together appropriated camera-drop pratfalls from uploaded videos to suggest a network of serendipitous mishap. Video after the jump. Read More »

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The music sequencer Isle of Tune is like a simple little city sim game—for a magical land of loopy, tuneful fancy. Read More »