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more about #obsolete more comments → ilovexspin: Jesus is a little promo happy today. I guess the topic of retro tattoos gets him very excited. more » kitsuneconundrum: toliet paper, hatem more » Purple Dave: Meh. I actually just went out earlier this year and bought two CRT TVs. Got a 13" and a 27" for a fraction of what it would have cost me to buy a si... more » Scott000001: Even though it's making fun of it thanks for including my VHS tattoo! Mine is the one with the clouds around it that says WAMG inside it! more » dragonlizard89: i'd rather have an arc reactor tattooed on my chest. more » SigmundTheSeaMonster: Walkie Talkies. CB. Previous media players. Light bulbs. But you know, the constant is that drawer filled with "obsolete" things... more » Uncletwitch: I have 2 tatoo's.. an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other more » CrispyAardvark: The last image with the Audio tape loses even more points for not having the tape run under the spooler guides. At least the other, similar tattoo is ... more » djdare: What about a turtable? more » Diziet_Sma: People have emotional attachments to random objects. I'm not sure what makes these more ridiculous than any other tattoo. more » lostarchitect: I think a couple of those are pretty good, actually. The key and camera are pretty nice. more » chrisfox01: Wow, the tattoo of the Blackberry Storm is a real winner. more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: You may call it "vintage", but I have skeleton key locks on almost all the doors in my house. In addition to modern double sided deadbolts, of course... more » massmith2: you are all a hoot. i know i am showing my age - will be 60 the 26th - but always young at heart and learning technology at a later age due to added t... more » ryemac3: What about microwaves with the turn dial? I was so glad that was replaced with a keypad. I hated those! more » -
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Obsolete Gadget Tattoos Are Seven Shades of Wrong
Living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I've seen my share of intricate, beautiful, and veehee lickable tattoos. The vintage gadget kind are not them. Tumblred by Anna Jane Grossman—démodé-gadgeteer extraordinaire and author of the highly recommended Obsolete—these are a mistake: More » -
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Four Old Gadgets We Love (and Four We Hate)
Anna Jane Grossman is the author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By. She has compiled a special short list for Gizmodo: Four old gadgets we love and we'll really miss, and four we're glad are gone: More » -
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The Massive, Expensive Problem of Obsolete Tech
In 2005, a control room for the A and C subway lines in NYC caught fire. "No larger than a kitchen," the room held 600 relays, switches and circuits that keep track of trains and keep everything running. Officials originally thought it would take three to five years to get the lines back to normal capacity. (Thankfully it didn't.) The epic repair time was because the fixed-block signaling system dates back to 1904 and only two companies in the world were able to repair it, one in Pittsburgh and the other in Paris. This is technology's trailing edge, according to Peter Sandborn in IEEE Spectrum: the huge, crippling problem of obsolescence. More »
