I saw this on Boing Boing today and I knew I had seen this a few years ago. With a bit of work I was able to find the original site. The fishhighway domain is gone but thanks to Wayback Machine it still lives on. (Make sure you check out the images on Archive and not the other site that is just serving up the photos and raking in the ad bucks). Apparently it’s based on an old patent from 1877, you can see an image of it here. It’s a clever idea but even if you can clean the tubes with a magnitized cleaner it would still be a pain. But as aquariums go it does look awesome.
Category: Historic
Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four
Roger Corman, king of the low budget films, produced a version of the Fantastic Four back in 1994. Sadly, it never saw the light of day. Well, perhaps it wasn’t all that sad. The film wasn’t all that great. Anyway, it’s been posted to YouTube (in 10 parts) so check it out before it’s too late!
[via Neatorama]
AtariAge
Atari lives! I’m talking about the old school 2600 systems, the ones that I lost countless hours of my youth trying to beat. At AtariAge you can pick up the latest games released in what can only be called hard core retro vision. Actual new games on physical carts that you plug in to your 2600. No emulation here!
[via retro thing]
AtariAge
PXL2000 User Manual
A reader posted a comment today on where one might obtain a copy of the users manual for the retro niche video camera of artists, the Fisher-Price PXL2000. Now, if your into the indy avaunt guard art movie scene you know what this is. If not it was a video camera marketed to kid that recorded a cropped blocky black and white image onto a standard audio tape. Wild eh? I’ve owned a few (I did the A/V mod on at least one thank you) and they are a blast to play with. I even removed the IR filter in hopes I could make a night vision scope for playing paintball. Eh, I was young…
The Rolamite
I think I’ve seen something a bit like these in tape drives and floppy drives, but then again maybe not. A Rolamite is a metal tape and a set of rollers that have some simply fascinating properties, like almost no friction and a natural tendency to store energy. A fine example of a practical use is this letter scale. I wonder if this might have a use in robotics…
[via Boing Boing]
Air & Space Magazine
I recently discovered that Air & Space magazine has a web site. Who would have thought?