The “Clapper”, literal snail mail, anti-gravity underwear – there are reasons why all of these objects are extinct. But now, a new book is exhuming them from the trash heap of history. In “Extinct: A ...

German ad agency Jung von Matt brings us the Museum of Obsolete Objects—an online exhibit (it’s really a tricked-out YouTube German ad agency Jung von Matt brings us the Museum of Obsolete Objects—an ...

We’ve bid farewell to typewriters, rotary phones, and Rolodexes as casualties of the digital era. And while most offices still need paper, paperweights are about as useful today as a slide rule. But ...

Slate published an essay by Dean of the School of Architecture Harriet Harriss that is included in the new book Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects from the University of Chicago Press ...

The horn of a 1906 Edison standard phonograph is pointed toward the glass of a display case in a side gallery of the Clark County Museum. Surrounded by multicolored cylinder records, the phonograph is ...

Today, much of our communication, information and personal memorabilia come in digital not material form. These electronic bytes that we regard as our possessions are summoned on demand and stored on ...

Editor’s Note: Karim Rashid is one of this generation’s most prolific and celebrated designers. He was CNN Style’s guest editor for September 2015, writing a series of features on design in the ...

Phones are making notes obsolete. Need to jot a note to remind your roommate about something? Text. Want to write a grocery list? Use notes mode on your phone. Have to write down a model number on an ...