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Backstage of 3D and animation

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A toilet roll hangs one of two ways, with the loose end over the front or under against the wall. The 1891 patent for the roll draws it over. Over or under?
Page of the 1891 toilet paper roll patent showing the roll on its holder with the loose end over the front

ALT Page of the 1891 toilet paper roll patent showing the roll on its holder with the loose end over the front

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Stainless steel phone with a round screen by Motorola, 2008
2000s was peak industrial design for mobile phone. Change my mind!

ALT 2000s was peak industrial design for mobile phone. Change my mind!

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Restaurant toilet door in Japan that you pull open with your forearm, so your clean hands stay clean
Safe toilet door handle in 夢庵 逗子店 restaurant. Safe toilet door handle in 夢庵 逗子店 restaurant

ALT Safe toilet door handle in 夢庵 逗子店 restaurant. Safe toilet door handle in 夢庵 逗子店 restaurant

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Radius Pivot, the Mac monitor that turned its picture around when you turned the screen on its side, 1990
Setting up a vintage Mac writing station, clean and distraction free

ALT Setting up a vintage Mac writing station, clean and distraction free

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Gerald Wiegert built the Vector W8 to be America's answer to Ferrari, with a cockpit styled like a fighter jet, and fewer than twenty were ever made
Purple Vector W8 Twin Turbo with its doors raised under palm trees

ALT Purple Vector W8 Twin Turbo with its doors raised under palm trees

Vector W8 seen from the front three quarters

ALT Vector W8 seen from the front three quarters

Vector W8 seen from the rear three quarters

ALT Vector W8 seen from the rear three quarters

Vector W8 cockpit with steering wheel and orange dashboard screen

ALT Vector W8 cockpit with steering wheel and orange dashboard screen

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iA, the studio behind iA Writer, made a notebook with lines that disappear after you write on it. Thoughts?
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It looks like an old fridge, but it's a machine in a London record store that sells you a random book
The Literarium. Jack White using the Literarium book vending machine at Third Man Records, London.

ALT The Literarium. Jack White using the Literarium book vending machine at Third Man Records, London.

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Orbit desk fan by Verity's that swings its head in a figure eight
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Karl Schlör built this machine in 1939 to lower the drag coefficient
Schlörwagen: The Bizarre German Car that was Super-Aerodynamic but Very Impractical, 1939.

ALT Schlörwagen: The Bizarre German Car that was Super-Aerodynamic but Very Impractical, 1939.

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Post-it notes are yellow by accident, the lab next door at 3M only had yellow scrap paper
A single yellow Post-it note

ALT A single yellow Post-it note

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Apple handed this mouse to everyone in the hall at Macworld New York 2000, the day Steve Jobs showed the G4 Cube. It was Apple's first optical mouse.
My MacWorld 2000 Mouse

ALT My MacWorld 2000 Mouse

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Mario has a mustache because the 1981 Donkey Kong had too few pixels to draw a mouth, and a cap because hair was too hard to animate
The original pixel Mario sprite with a mustache and a cap

ALT The original pixel Mario sprite with a mustache and a cap

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Greek engineer Hero of Alexandria built the first vending machine in the 1st century, and when you dropped in a coin its weight opened a tap of holy water
Ancient automated vending machine, 1st century AD, Alexandria (reconstruction). Automated vending machine, weight based, 1st century AD, Alexandria (reconstruction). Thessaloniki Technology Museum

ALT Ancient automated vending machine, 1st century AD, Alexandria (reconstruction). Automated vending machine, weight based, 1st century AD, Alexandria (reconstruction). Thessaloniki Technology Museum

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Microsoft Word came out on the Mac in 1985, four years before it ever reached Windows
Microsoft Word for Macintosh -86 (2954945081). A floppy disk from 1986 containing Microsoft Word. Quite a different logo Microsoft got there...

ALT Microsoft Word for Macintosh -86 (2954945081). A floppy disk from 1986 containing Microsoft Word. Quite a different logo Microsoft got there...

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Pikachu's tail never had a black tip. It's yellow all the way down with a bit of brown at the base, the black tips are on his ears.
Official Pikachu artwork with a yellow tail and no black tip

ALT Official Pikachu artwork with a yellow tail and no black tip

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Olivetti, the Italian typewriter company, made this M24 to run IBM PC software, and it ran it 50 to 80 percent faster than IBM's own machine. In America the same computer sold as the AT&T PC 6300.
1984 Olivetti M24 ad: a terrier with a bowler hat next to the computer, 'Friendly & compatible'

ALT 1984 Olivetti M24 ad: a terrier with a bowler hat next to the computer, 'Friendly & compatible'

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About 1% of people ever press Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button, and in 2007 it was estimated to cost Google around $110 million a year. It skips the results page, which is where the ads are.
Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button from 1998

ALT Google's I'm Feeling Lucky button from 1998

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Corning Ware made kitchen dishes and coffee pots like this one from a glass that chemist Don Stookey invented by accident in 1953, when his furnace overheated
There's something about this brand that's comforting.

ALT There's something about this brand that's comforting.

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Piso WiFi coin box on a shop wall in the Philippines, you drop in one peso and get online
Piso WiFi vending machine in Lobo, Batangas. Coin-operated WiFi vending machine (Piso WiFi) in Batangas, Philippines (2025).

ALT Piso WiFi vending machine in Lobo, Batangas. Coin-operated WiFi vending machine (Piso WiFi) in Batangas, Philippines (2025).

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Part of the Netflix ta-dum is sound designer Lon Bender tapping his wedding ring on a cabinet
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