With a little help from Oscar-nominated Hollywood movies like "Sinners" and "One Battle After Another" new fans are flocking ...

One of my almost-3-year-old son’s current favorite toys looks like a relic from the ’80s, even though it definitely didn’t exist when I was a kid. The Little Tikes Story Dream Machine, which launched ...

Here I thought social media and artificial intelligence was the stuff I needed to worry about. In the world of The Black Phone, dead technology is a pipeline to dead people. Disconnected pay phones ...

To update an old saying for the modern day, one man’s e-waste is another man’s bill of materials. Upcycling has always been in the hacker’s toolkit, and cellphones provide a wealth of resources for ...

The Smithsonian Planetarium Projector is chunky and solid enough that it's a good choice for kids. Its range of scientific images are great, but the blue dots that pass as stars leave something to be ...

In a screening room at the “South Side Home Movie Project” exhibit at the Logan Center for the Arts on the University of Chicago campus, images of 20th-century South Side families flash across a ...

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Video formats have changed drastically over the years, but many people still have valuable memories stored on older videotapes. One common format is 8mm video cassettes, which were popular for home ...

This video features a rare 1950s movie projector produced by the French company Wamoo Toys, known for their popularity in Europe. It is the creator's first 8mm projector, and there are three films ...