January 7, 2011 – Our planet recently made another fantastic journey around the sun. What better way to celebrate than to take a look at the marvelous mechanical contraptions we've created to visualize our solar system's celestial dance. For some more intergalactic, interplanetary entertainment here on earth,... More »

December 31, 2010 – Lady Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge—they didn't just appear there one day. Here's a look at what some of America's greatest monuments looked like before they became the iconic images we know today. Need an extra does of famous cityscapes and historic landmarks? More »

December 30, 2010 – Beehives, flower power, and really, really large computers. Looking at these photos taken at Bell Labs in the 1960s is like traveling back in time. Was working at Bell Labs totally "groovy"? Although I always imagined Bell Labs dominated by men, the photographer sure did manage to capture a lot... More »

December 30, 2010 – The 1780 Grand Orrery, designed by James Ferguson, is a complex clock. It is the zenith of the view of the world as a complex clockwork mechanism. [Oobject] The 8 foot tall Long Now Foundation Orrery. More »

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December 30, 2010 – Windows Phone 7 now has just over 5,000 titles (5,149 to be exact) in their 2 month old marketplace. That's the same number as Palm's 1.5 year old webOS store. More »

December 28, 2010 – We've seen 3D food printers before, but now we know exactly what deliciousness they're capable of. Food squeezed out of a syringe never looked so tasty—or artful. Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Laboratory developed the fab@home technology used to create these 3D printed... More »

December 28, 2010 – The now banned polyurethane and neoprene swimsuits, while making wearers slick as a fish, also helped swimmers perform better through increased core stability. More »

December 27, 2010 – Cardok, a secret room car elevator that's perfect for a secret getaway. [Oobject] The amazing VW Autostadt. [Oobject] A 1930s Automatic Car Park. [Oobject] The system Grando, a cylindrical car parking system. More »

December 27, 2010 – The Statue of Liberty under construction in France. [Oobject] The Gateway Arch, St. Louis, almost completed. [Oobject] The Disneyland Castle under construction. More »

December 27, 2010 – If you grew up in the 60s or 70s, you grew up with the futuristic creations of Gerry Anderson on the TV. These toy replicas of his designs are screaming to be zoomed across the kitchen table and into the air. It's toy time! More »

December 24, 2010 – The Everest climb is a notoriously nasty expedition. Here's an inside look at some of the gear used to climb that icy mountain fortress, from the earliest expeditions to today's tech-filled ventures. More »

December 23, 2010 – Some of the most famous designs from Anderson's series were his trucks and space trucks. The 1970s Thunderbird 2 took half an episode to launch as they beamed messages back and forth into space, lowered palm trees, cleared a runway and raised a fire-break. More »

December 20, 2010 – GigaPan Imager, used to take the highest panoramas on earth. [Oobject] Image Credit: Onorbit.com Medical chests used on the British 1924 and 1938 Mount Everest Expedition. More »

December 17, 2010 – Remember The Jetsons? How they all traveled by pneumatic tube, sucked from one place to another? These plans, concepts, and photographs show we've been dreaming about that idea for a long time. For more things under the ground, on rails, or sucked through a tube, take a look at 10 creepy More »

December 17, 2010 – Lifehacker, io9 and Gizmodo want to watch TRON: Legacy with readers in San Francisco, New York and everywhere else. Cosplay if you can. There may be a beer in it for you afterwards. The meetups will be December 17—today!—and details are as follows. For the San Francisco meetup, we'll... More »

December 17, 2010 – Remains of the Beach Pneumatic Tunnel in 1899. [Oobject] The Battersea Pneumatic Dispatch, which, in this image, was used to deliver mail. Later, a passenger carrying version of this system was developed elsewhere in London, at Holborn. More »

December 16, 2010 – Tim Ferris, author of the 4-Hour Body (which we've been excerpting all week), is on hand to answer your questions in the comments! Tim will do his best to answer as many questions as possible for the next half hour. More »

December 15, 2010 – Tim Ferris, whose new book we've been excerpting from all week, is going to be on-hand tomorrow at 3pm EST for 30 minutes to answer your questions. See you in the comments! Tim will do his best to answer as many questions as possible over the half hour, which means that he might not be able to get... More »

December 14, 2010 – Leave the domino effect to books, people, and well, real dominoes. In Carbon Design's Domino Clock, the black dots silently switch to white dots to indicate the time, functioning similar to a digital clock (except with oversized dominoes). A custom actuator was designed to power the thousands of... More »