As smoking cigarettes becomes less popular all over the world we can all breathe a sigh of relief and suck in some clean, non threatening air. The only problem with the death of smoking is that the world probably won’t see any cool smoking gadgets in the future. Here are a couple of crackers which almost make us wish that cigarettes were hip again. The Cigarette Umbrella...
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It wasn’t so long ago that the computer pictured on this page was considered a cutting edge piece of machinery. The Harwell Dekatron is the oldest original digital computer on the planet. It was given the nickname WITCH and was put together in 1951, making it 61 years old now. It was one of the first dozen of such computers around at that time. For the last 3 years it...
The internet changes all the time, doesn’t it? Today’s success story is tomorrow’s sob story and nothing stays the same for more than a week, isn’t that right? Well, actually it appears not to be the case anymore. The stunningly popular mini blogging site Twitter has just celebrated its 5th birthday, and that made us wonder whether some other things have been...