Vincze Miklós, Author at Gizmodo

The Subterranean Wonder of Abandoned Subway Stations

Deep beneath the Earth, humans dug massive subway tunnels — and sometimes, we abandon them. As they decay, these places start to look like the macabre remains of buried civilizations. Here is a gallery featuring some of the most fascinating and weirdest of these underground places. Aldwych (formerly Strand) Station, London The station with two…

io9 Vincze Miklós Apr 4

Food in Space: Great Photos of Astronaut Meals, from the Early Space Voyages to Today

Nowadays, astronauts eat food that’s as good as what you can get anywhere on Earth. But back in the day, space food came in weird tubes, like toothpaste. Or was shaped into blobs of tasteless goop. Here are some fascinating, colorful photos of food items in space, from the early days of space travel to…

io9 Vincze Miklós Apr 3

Maintain your geek cred with these scifi-themed computer components

Just because you’re at work doesn’t mean you have to stop obsessing over science fiction. Here are a few devices that will let you use your machines in the dorkiest way possible. The Dalek Desk Defender for the maximum security The Dalek has a motion sensor to detect the unwanted people around the computer. If…

io9 Vincze Miklós Apr 2

Strange Architecture Of The Tito And Ceausescu Regime

Your definitive guide to some of the most unusual structures Romania has to offer. Palace of the Parliament, 1984-1990, Bucharest, Romania The world’s largest and heaviest civilian building with its 270m by 240m (885 by 787 ft) size, 84 m (275 ft) height and 1100 rooms. It was designed by Anca Petrescu and a group…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 30

Hilarious and Awesome Computer Ads from the Golden Age of PCs

I bet you don’t remember that both William Shatner and Isaac Asmiov were pitchmen for PCs. Well, people who had “home computers” back in the 1980s do. Here’s a collection of insanely great (and greatly insane) computer ads from the days of WarGames and Tron. Commodore makes software for every member of the family. Almost.…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 28

The Amazing World of Photo Editing Before Photoshop

Today, manipulated or ‘shopped photos are common in the media and in our everyday life, but that wasn’t the case for most of photographic history. Here are some of the most interesting trick photos and image manipulations made before the first version of Photoshop was released in 1989. Sealed Power Piston Rings, by John Paul…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 27

Gorgeous, Strange and Intense Propaganda Posters from China in the 1950s

Propaganda posters, like advertisements, are often strikingly beautiful and moving. After all, they are designed to be persuasive. And the 1950s, the height of the Cold War between communism and capitalism, were a heyday for propaganda all over the world. Here are some of the most incredible works of propaganda from the Chinese government during…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 26

The Most Astounding Steam-Powered Vehicles in History

From the velocipede (pictured above) to buses, vehicles powered by steam were being beta-tested throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results were pretty weird, and hint at a steam-powered future that never happened. The Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede from 1867-1869 A small steam engine was attached to a velocipede – it was the…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 25

These photographs capture the terror, joy and weirdness of the USSR’s final days

In the last days of the USSR, the nation was changing incredibly fast. People were starving, but they were also joyfully rebelling against their crumbling government. Communism was slowly eroding into nationalism. These moving photographs capture the moments heralded the end of the Soviet Union. The first McDonald’s restaurant in the Soviet Union, Pushkin Square,…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 22

The Fading Grandeur of Abandoned Soviet Space Facilities

The Soviet Union launched Sputnik and gave the United States a run for its money in the Space Race. But after the U.S.S.R. went under, all of its brilliant Space Age facilities were left to crumble. Looking at the ruins is like gazing at a fallen space empire. A factory of the NPO Energomash VP…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 21

The Weirdest Aircraft of the 20th Century

The 20th Century gave us the Wright Brothers, the 747 and the Concorde. But it also gave us some of the strangest things ever to take to the skies. Here are some of the most insane aircraft ever conceived. Aerocar N103D, 1956 The Aerocar Model One was patented in 1956, had a 125 hp engine…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 20

The bizarre copycat architecture of China

We all know that Chinese companies love to clone everything from sneakers to smartphones, but that’s not all. In the last few decades, architecture firms in China have started to copy iconic buildings and even whole cities from other countries. Here are some of the strangest copycat monuments, including the Eiffel Tower and the entire…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 18

Awe-inspiring homes and buildings made out of old airplanes

If you’re going to make a building out of reclaimed materials, then why not pick some previously-used materials that are awesome? Like an entire airplane? Here are some of our favorite homes, restaurants and more that incorporate decommissioned airplanes. Hotel Costa Verde from a Boeing 727 in Costa Rica The 1965 Boeing was transported from…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 14

This is what farms will look like in the future

As the world’s human population grows, we’re reducing the amount of agricultural areas and forests. That’s why some architects are working on concepts for sustainable skyscrapers and vertical agricultural buildings. Here are some of the most interesting plans for the merging of the city and the farm. The Dragonfly for New York City (Vincent Callebaut,…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 13

The greatest homes made from shipping containers around the world

The relatively cheap shipping container is a good foundation for a strong, mobile, and post-apocalyptic home. In the last two decades, architects have been incorporating shipping containers into everything from schools to houses — for aesthetic reasons, but also out of economic necessity. Here are some of their most eye-catching creations. Crossbox House, by CG…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 12

These Soviet anti-alcohol posters offer a lurid view of communist history

In the USSR, alcoholism was an enormous problem, which the government tried to tackle with these incredible PSA posters. The messages in them will be familiar to anyone who has seen anti-drug posters in the United States — but the style is distinctively Soviet. Life as a sober and an alcoholic man A detail of…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 11

The robots of Europe are more debonair than you

We’ve seen Japanese robots, and we’ve seen American ones. But these classic European robots show you how to wear metal with style and charm. The Artificial Man, or “Occultus”, or Barbarossa from “The Gebethner and Wolff’s Yearbook”, 1912 One mechanic in Berlin constructed a mechanism which, in his opinion, very much imitated “a real man”.…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 8

Strange Buildings of the Eastern Bloc from the Last Decades of Communism

Communist architecture is often monumental, sometimes minimalist, and always imposing. But in the latter years of most European communist states, traditional Brutalist architecture gave way to something a little weirder — and occasionally even playful. Here are some incredible buildings from this era in late Eastern Bloc communism. Crematorium, Kiev, Ukraine (1975) You can see…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 6

The Tragic Story of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

The Semipalatinsk Test Site (“The Polygon”) was the primary nuclear testing site for the Soviet Union. It’s about 150 kilometres west of the town Semey (named Semipalatinsk until 2007). The place was selected in 1947 by Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet atomic bomb project, who claimed the huge steppe region was totally uninhabited. It…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 5

The groovy socialist world of 1970s Soviet futurism

Some of the most famous images of Soviet futurism come out of the 1920s and 30s, when the Revolution was young and propaganda posters were like stark works of realist art. But the nation continued to produce works of incredible futurism throughout its reign — including during the trippy period before the Iron Curtain fell…

io9 Vincze Miklós Mar 4

Vincze Miklós

The Subterranean Wonder of Abandoned Subway Stations

Food in Space: Great Photos of Astronaut Meals, from the Early Space Voyages to Today

Maintain your geek cred with these scifi-themed computer components

Strange Architecture Of The Tito And Ceausescu Regime

Hilarious and Awesome Computer Ads from the Golden Age of PCs

The Amazing World of Photo Editing Before Photoshop

Gorgeous, Strange and Intense Propaganda Posters from China in the 1950s

The Most Astounding Steam-Powered Vehicles in History

These photographs capture the terror, joy and weirdness of the USSR’s final days

The Fading Grandeur of Abandoned Soviet Space Facilities

The Weirdest Aircraft of the 20th Century

The bizarre copycat architecture of China

Awe-inspiring homes and buildings made out of old airplanes

This is what farms will look like in the future

The greatest homes made from shipping containers around the world

These Soviet anti-alcohol posters offer a lurid view of communist history

The robots of Europe are more debonair than you

Strange Buildings of the Eastern Bloc from the Last Decades of Communism

The Tragic Story of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

The groovy socialist world of 1970s Soviet futurism

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