CNN

From the ‘Clapper’ to arsenic wallpaper, why objects go extinct

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 ...
Observer

Visit the online museum of very short films about antiquated objects

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 ...
Pratt Institute

The Obsolete Object That Gave Every Boomer a Case of Redeye

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 ...
Las Vegas Sun

Clark County exhibit explores obsolete technology — past, present and future

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 ...
Campaign Asia

The future of the physical object

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 ...