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Although the origin of the word ‘walkie-talkie’ seems straightforward enough, there’s still much debate amongst etymologists. According to one source (the one you’re currently reading) the story goes as follows. It all began in the 1890s, with the first moving pictures. At the time, these were called walkies, as most early films involved people or animals walking. People required little …
Killing is complicated business, when you consider all the rules. It’s not allowed to bring a knife to a gunfight. Unless the knife can be attached to a gun, as a bayonet. There is a certain right to bear arms and to bare arms, but only the latter is allowed in hand to hand combat, though in some cultures it’s …
According to most historical sources, skateboarding was invented around 1950 by American surfers who needed additional ways to waste their time in the absence of waves. But in actual fact, the idea was introduced by the Society for Innocent Boring Citizens. Their aim was twofold. First of all, they wanted Innocent Boring beachgoers to be able to frolic in the …
Binoculars are as old as humanity, and possibly even older. But these particular ones, the BPC4 8×30 produced in the Soviet Union in 1980, are quite special. They are probably the most unique model since the very first pair (the identity of which has been lost in the darkest and deepest creepy crypts of time), and certainly by far the …
Electric shaving is no longer cool. In fact, shaving in general will soon be a thing of the past, due to its total lack of coolness. The real man of today can no longer be taken seriously without a serious manbeard. And don’t think this is just a fad that will blow over in a couple of years, like the …
Electro Boy was a little known superhero sidekick in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The reason he’s so little known is as obvious, in retrospect, as it is tragic: Electro Boy was not a real boy. He was ‘just’ a machine. A plastic box with a bunch of gears thrown in, incapable of intelligence or emotion on a human …
The Venusberg Drill was developed in the final year of World War II in Germany, as a training weapon for the Hitlerjugend. It was a so-called Militärjugendausbildungswaffe (Maw for short). Other Maws included potatoes for grenades, dishes for mines and knives for knives. The idea was to familiarize future soldiers with military skills at an early age, to save time …
When the US entered the space race in 1958 and started Project Mercury, many companies in the West were quick to jump on the bandwagon and use the public’s enthusiasm for all things space-related for marketing purposes. Philips, being a Dutch company, went for maximum effect with minimal effort and decided to re-market one of their existing products. Their 752x …
The Devil’s a sneaky bastard (though technically, he has no parents). Ever since his early days in the Garden of Eden, he’s been plotting to pervert and enslave man. His latest trick was the internet. Initially, it was intended as the digital era’s apple: a means to drown man in a world-engulfing sea of knowledge of everything and all, in …
