Obselete Tech Satnav without the satellites As far back as 1930 there was a device available for helping navigate your shiny new horseless carriage. It is an interesting example of using the limited technology of the time to get you from A to B with a slightly lower chance of getting lost.
Obselete Tech Featured Airships I had a series of dreams once where I was building a flying machine from an old red bus. At the time it felt convincing that I could really make this work - and if I wasn't a pre-teen at the time I would have woken up, started saving and
Retro Tech Why you can't play duck hunt anymore Back in 2000-ish I bought a dodgy knock-off games console from an Asian stop over and at customs they asked my about this gun shaped item in the x-ray machine. This was pre 9/11 and they weren't too fussed. The opened the package, saw that the 'gun' had a
Obselete Tech The mechanical TV Flashing lights, whirling discs and tiny, blurry moving pictures. TV got off to a strange and rocky start.
Ancient Tech The 2000 year-old computer This strange, corroded mechanical device was built around the first century BC and is considered the earliest known computer.
