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'It's Ludicrous': Those $17K Gold Apple Watches Are Now Obsolete
The original 2015 watches are now obsolete according to reports, which means they can't be repaired by Apple. Nothing gold can stay.
I Shot a New Hit Movie on a 1969 Video Camera
I have shot movies for Andrew Bujalski in the boxy 1.33:1 aspect ratio, or on grainy 16mm black and white negative before. But “Computer Chess” is our most extreme technical experiment so far.
When Gadgets Were Huge: The Great 80s Computers of "Computer Chess"
Long before machines could outperform their fleshy human counterparts in an ever-growing number of tasks—in a space no bigger than a fleshy hand—computers were huge. Literally, huge.
Train Your Boyfriend Like the Animal That He Is
Learning how to train dogs hasn’t fixed all the problems in my life, but it has given me a better idea of how to properly use rewards with those around me, no matter how many legs they might walk on.
'Mardi Gras in a Can': Consider the Drum Buddy, the Mysterious Light-Powered Synth
The Drum Buddy operates something like an optical theremin, giving the stylistically-liberated musician power to make otherworldly, fully analog sounds of all kinds
Some People Still Rent VHS Tapes
Venture out of the digitized confines of Manhattan and into the cyberpunky outer boroughs, and you might discover "what Kirk Semple":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/nyregion/for-some-new-york-immigrants-vhs-is-king-for-movie-rentals.html, a New York...
Tumblr Invaded the New York Times' Underground Morgue
Not far from the paper's shiny headquarters, the Times still keeps its morgue, the clippings archive that in the olden days was Google before Google, and where now newspaper clippings and photos - actual, physical things - go to die. Or to get...
Faded: Life On the Cusp of Obsolescence
As a civilization speeding headlong into uncharted terrains, we get our kicks staring out the window at all the outmoded stuff going out of focus in our collective rearview. We obsess over the newly obsolete, the antiques of recent history. We...
The Beautiful Insides of Everyday Objects
Everything is only the sum of its parts--but what are those parts? Most of the objects we live with are invisible to us.
The Pleasant Rhythm of Those Hard-Typing Times
At the Atlantic, for its "How Genius Works":http://www.theatlantic.com/special-report/how-genius-works/ issue, TC Boyle talks about writing his 1995 book _The Tortilla Curtain_, just before he began using a computer, losing his careful revisions in the...
Let Your Computer Write By Hand For You
"What you've been waiting for":http://www.pilothandwriting.com since the invention of the feather pen.