In the 90s, comics were competing harder than ever for consumers' attention and publishers needed a new way to grab attention on the shelf. After all, we often do judge… Read the rest of the article: Glow-in-the-dark inks, real bullet holes, and other gimmicky comic book covers (video)
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Lux Sparks-Pescovitz In 1981, Suzuki launched the Omnichord, an electronic autoharp simple enough that anyone could play make cool music using it. While the instrument wasn't a smash hit, it garnered a… Read the rest of the article: Omnichord, the wonderfully simple synth-harp of the 1980s, is reborn
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Lux Sparks-Pescovitz Adam Shub, known by many as squarepainter, paints scenes from retro games, painstakingly, pixel by pixel. His work represents mostly titles from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, begins with a grid… Read the rest of the article: Adam Shub, painting pixel by pixel
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Lux Sparks-Pescovitz The Nintendo 64 has the smallest library of games of any Nintendo console. Just under 300 games, completing a complete set has grown more popular over the years due to… Read the rest of the article: Ultra-rare Nintendo game found at thrift store is worth $1,000+
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Lux Sparks-Pescovitz Ah, the thrift store electronics section, frequently filled with quite possibly enough Wii Fit Balance Boards to reach the moon and back. But occasionally, a gem can still be found… Read the rest of the article: How to turn a thrift store cassette player into a gnarly guitar distortion box
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Lux Sparks-Pescovitz 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Long before the infamous Pepsi commercial, Michael Jackson and his brothers pitched breakfast cereal!