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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    1:23 pm Thu, Mar 9, 2023
    You can now order pizza with a Nintendo Wii (again)

    The Nintendo-loving developers of WiiLink have come out with a new way to keep your wii busy this year with a revival of the long-discontinued WiiConnect24 services, including formerly Japanese-exclusive channels!… Read the rest of the article: You can now order pizza with a Nintendo Wii (again)

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    2:59 pm Mon, Jan 30, 2023
    Maker creates electronic device that solders itself like "a self-cooking pizza"

    An engineer in the small European country of Malta by the name of Carl Bugeja has created what may very well be the first hobbyist self-soldering printed circuit boards. For those… Read the rest of the article: Maker creates electronic device that solders itself like "a self-cooking pizza"

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    12:08 pm Mon, Aug 29, 2022
    Haunting sounds of the beautiful new Moog Etherwave Theremin

    Invented nearly a century ago, the theremin is famously known as the first music instrument you play without touching it. In the 1950s, Bob Moog—then a high school student—began building… Read the rest of the article: Haunting sounds of the beautiful new Moog Etherwave Theremin

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    7:43 am Mon, Aug 15, 2022
    Tokyo's most unusual electronics shop closes its doors after 62 years

    In the heart of Akihabara, Tokyo's legendary "Electric Town," nestled inside the famous Radio Kaikan commercial building, you'll find a tiny booth absolutely packed with with switches, resistors, capacitors, integrated… Read the rest of the article: Tokyo's most unusual electronics shop closes its doors after 62 years

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    3:36 pm Tue, Aug 9, 2022
    Hyperpop duo 100 gecs serves up Doritos and Fritos Pie at San Francisco's Outside Lands

    Last October, hyperpop artists 100 gecs delivered a tweet anxiously anticipated by their growing number of adoring fans who had fallen in love with the duo's highly-praised debut "1000 gecs"… Read the rest of the article: Hyperpop duo 100 gecs serves up Doritos and Fritos Pie at San Francisco's Outside Lands

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    11:59 am Sun, Jul 3, 2022
    These are the crazy industrial machines that make fireworks

    Above, a visit to a building in Liuyang, China where stacks of roman candle tubes and pop-its cover the floor. This is a fireworks machine trade show, where companies purchase… Read the rest of the article: These are the crazy industrial machines that make fireworks

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    8:33 am Wed, Oct 14, 2020
    This is the other Tetris theme song

    In 1989, Nintendo launched "Tetris" into the public eye. Pre-packaged with nearly every Game Boy, and selling 35 million units, now almost everyone knows the theme song. But did you… Read the rest of the article: This is the other Tetris theme song

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    5:03 pm Sat, Apr 18, 2020
    Support a new documentary about vaporwave music

    In 2009, musician Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) released a track called "Nobody Here" followed by the album "Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol.1" less than a year later. Now, that track… Read the rest of the article: Support a new documentary about vaporwave music

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    8:57 am Thu, Feb 20, 2020
    Visiting a China trade show for fireworks manufacturing machines

    Above, a visit to a building in Liuyang, China where stacks of roman candle tubes and pop-its cover the floor. This is a fireworks machine trade show, where companies purchase… Read the rest of the article: Visiting a China trade show for fireworks manufacturing machines

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    5:07 pm Mon, Jul 9, 2018
    Making chiptunes with a calculator

    HoustonTracker2 is free software that turns your still-overpriced Texas Instruments graphing calculator into a synth. Demo above. Now, you will not only be the nerdiest kid in algebra class, but… Read the rest of the article: Making chiptunes with a calculator

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    7:26 am Thu, Jul 5, 2018
    Fantastic collection of 1980s videogame TV commercials

    Videogame commercials are practically a lost art. The 1980s was the peak of videogame advertising, especially on television. Above, a one hour collection of those fantastic commercials. No matter how… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic collection of 1980s videogame TV commercials

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    10:49 am Wed, Aug 17, 2016
    Kermit the Frog and the Electric Mayhem perform Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime"

    Recently, I went to Outside Lands 2016, where bands such as Radiohead, Lionel Richie, LCD Soundsystem, Duran Duran and many more were playing. But my favorite was Dr. Teeth and… Read the rest of the article: Kermit the Frog and the Electric Mayhem perform Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime"

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  • Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
    9:16 am Fri, Jul 24, 2015
    Watch the Jackson 5's cereal commercials

    Long before the infamous Pepsi commercial, Michael Jackson and his brothers pitched breakfast cereal!

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