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Jeff Ely, an economics professor at Northwestern , reveals a few of pinball's profitable secrets:
"In 1986, Williams High Speed changed the economics of pinball forever. Pinball developers began to see how they could take advantage of programmable software to monitor, incentivize, and ...
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Don't let the awkward name scare you off. The Blackbird, Fly is a rather nifty little plastic Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) from Japan. A TLR has two objective lenses. One captures the photo, while the other projects almost the same image onto a matte focusing screen surrounded by a hood on top ...
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Japanese Club Nintendo members who have reached Platinum status will be able to get their hands on a brand new Game & Watch LCD game. Well, it's not actually a new game. It's a reissue of Ball , the very first G&W title to hit shelves way back in April 1980. It's powered by a CR2032 ...
Gaming
Nintendo
Mario Bros.
My father wasn't a violent man. Taciturn, unsympathetic, relentlessly Eastern European, but not violent. So it was strange to learn that he carried a gun. Not all the time, and not a big gun, but there were definitely times when my old man was packin' heat. The gun he carried was a tiny ...
Gaming
Here's your chance to own an Apple I. All you need is $50,000 to score the opening bid .
The Apple 1 was Wozniak and Jobs' first crack at creating a true mainstream personal
computer. Woz's revolutionary approach involved placing everything onto a
single circuit board, rather than in a ...
Software
Apple
Steve Jobs
Custom Victorian-style keyboards are so popular that Datamancer now offers a do-it-yourself alternative. Finished frames cost $300 in aluminum or $400 in brass. You can save an additional $150 if you're willing to do the
polishing yourself.
He says, "Each frame comes with 2 drilled sides, ...
Hardware
IBM
The David White Stereo Realist 3D projector looks like it was designed for Lord Vader himself. It's the companion to the Stereo Realist camera that we featured earlier this year. Just remember, "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will." -- ...
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Back in 1969, some boffins at the Post Office research station at Dollis Hill put together their vision of telecommunication in the 1990s. It is darkly disturbing, especially the notion that telecommuting workers would strut around the house in a suit and tie while coldly brushing off an ...
iPhone
World War
It's funny to see critics recoil in disappointment at "2012", the latest installment in the disaster film genre. While these flicks are often fun, they are less often any good. I like to have fun at the movies with explosions and karate and all of that, but overindulgent effects-driven movies ...
Online
Although the auction calls the RITM-2 the "Russian Minimoog," this simple little analog monosynth has little in common with Robert Moog's classic instrument. Still, it looks cool. Despite having only a single oscillator (saw, sine, PWM, noise), multiple waveforms can be generated ...
Online
eBay
I'm not really sure what I'd do with a personal rocket launcher (apart from getting arrested), but owning one was definitely a boyhood dream. That dream can now become a reality for a mere $199.99.
In return for your hard-earned cash, Centerfire Systems will send you a battered and ...
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The Logitec AM/FM USB radio stick is proof that vintage technology isn't always the best solution for the 21st century. The receiver plugs into your notebook so you can listen to (and record) old fashioned terrestrial radio.
It's kind of like enjoying your mp3 collection or favorite ...
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What could be cozier in the wintertime than a shiny new atomic watch? (err, don't answer that...) Hammacher Schlemmer claims that this $149.95 timepiece is the world's only pocket watch to rely on the WWVB Atomic Clock time signal broadcast from Fort Collins.Whether they're right or wrong, ...
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Pete Verrando wrote with news of his latest creation: "I just finished this, and thought it looked nice, so I thought I would show you. I do a lot of vintage restorations and mash-ups such as this. Some of them are on the main website under 'Radio Room.'
Inside the vintage cabinet is a 10 ...
Gadgets
Since the introduction of egg shaped chairs in the late 60's, many different styles occasionally appeared in movies depicting the future, or perhaps a scene showing some high style culture maven. In the "Men In Black" movies, egg chairs were even included on the movie posters. I've only ...
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Here's a freebie bit of retro consulting for all you modern media moguls. Are you tired of the fallout from the many makeup removal commercials that are just like yours? Electrify your audience with a dazzling day-glo demo of your product by including some low level radiation. That's ...
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Back in July 1969, amateur radio buff Larry Baysinger managed the impossible by listening in on transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts during their historic lunar landing.
The Louisville Courier-Journal reported, "Thanks to some homemade electronic equipment, including a rebuilt ...
