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Modern Mechanix
by Erik Gunther
Wed, May 30, 2007, 3:00 am PDT

Scanning pages from musty old magazines doesn't exactly sound like a winning concept for a web site. However, this blog creates a compelling experience from ancient articles in the realms of science and technology. You'll be transported back in time to a world where a speaker phone loomed ominously over an entire room, huge gorillas were preserved through "sculpturdermy," and tobacco had no nicotine. You'll marvel at the oddities dreamed up by mid-century inventors and find that everything old is new again. Either way, you'll enjoy this trip down memory lane. Just don't expect the monorail to pick you up anytime soon.

Filed under: Blogs, Vintage, Magazines, Design

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