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Miniature Cities Rise from the Ashes of Busted Technology

Broken motherboards, transistors and other baubles are given new life by artist Franco Recchia. City life, specifically, as he is an artist who works at the miniature level to recreate Manhattan skylines using nothing but computer junk made useful again. Also making the artist’s cut were a Boston skyline, crafted from what appears to be…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Pittsburgh Gets Pranked by 100-Year-Old Time Capsule

It was going to be a momentous day. A veritable treasure trove of local history, preserved and pristine within a time capsule that was buried beneath Pittsburgh, 100 years ago, just waiting to be opened! Then they opened it… …and discovered what sounds like the bottom of a dank, muddy river. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says…

Tech News Jack Loftus

TETSUOOO! The Gorgeous Animation Cels Of Akira

The Toonseum in Pittsburgh, PA is currently hosting the largest collection of art ever displayed from Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime classic Akira. The exhibit only runs until July 18th, so grab your Capsule jacket and ride to the Steel City. From Toonseum: [V]isitors of the ToonSeum of Pittsburgh will have a one of a kind…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

LRAD Sound Cannon Used on Pittsburgh G20 Protesters

I guess military tech always finds its way home. Pittsburgh city officials believe their police department’s use of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at last week’s G20 protests was “the first time the sound cannon had been used publicly.” Police used the device to emit a painful shrill that forced demonstrators to cover their…

Tech News Danny Allen

Find My iPhone Leads Cops to Robbery Suspects

Find My iPhone to the rescue again! Pittsburgh Police nabbed three robbery suspects over the weekend, after the man they allegedly robbed used the MobileMe online service to point police to their location. I’m relieved to see he called the cops and didn’t take chances like the guys that personally tracked down a swiped iPhone…

Tech News Danny Allen

Pittsburgh Skyscraper’s Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells “Pitetsbkrrh”

Pittsburgh, PA’s 33-story Grant Building famously spells out the name of the city in Morse Code so brightly it can be seen for over 100 miles. Except it doesn’t actually spell Pittsburgh, but “Pitetsbkrrh.” Eep. A former HAM radio enthusiast and Pittsburgh local, Tom Stapleton, decoded the message and posted the gaffe on YouTube, and…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Google Street View Car Commits Suicide By Bridge

Capping an unseasonably goofy week for Street View, one of their drivers managed to clothesline his car’s protruding pole camera with a low bridge outside of Pittsburgh. He submitted the photos to his boss anyway. https://gizmodo.com/buckinghamshire-uk-says-gtfo-to-google-street-view-via-5196359 You can relive the moment in Street View or via Valleywag’s video, embedded here, but you’ll have to furnish…

Tech News John Herrman

Cosplay Abounds at Zombie Fest in Pittsburgh

We’ve already shown you zombie Simpsons today, but where were Zombie Bride, Zombie Jesus, and Zombie Sarah Palin this weekend? They were chilling with over a thousand of their undead cohorts at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, where the horrific and the consumer-driven collided for a gory two days. There to celebrate World Zombie Day…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Meet Pittsburgh’s BigBots

If you’ve been putting off that trip to Pittsburgh, now might be the time to call your travel agent. Yesterday, the Steel City kicked off the Robot 250 Festival, a 17-day celebration of robot art and technology, featuring art exhibits, workshops, lectures, parties, film, and theater, all with a robot theme. Punctuating the festivities are…

io9 Lauren Davis

Miniature Cities Rise from the Ashes of Busted Technology

Pittsburgh Gets Pranked by 100-Year-Old Time Capsule

TETSUOOO! The Gorgeous Animation Cels Of Akira

LRAD Sound Cannon Used on Pittsburgh G20 Protesters

Find My iPhone Leads Cops to Robbery Suspects

Pittsburgh Skyscraper’s Famous Morse Code Signal Actually Spells “Pitetsbkrrh”

Google Street View Car Commits Suicide By Bridge

Cosplay Abounds at Zombie Fest in Pittsburgh

Meet Pittsburgh’s BigBots

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