Author: Boing Boing

The Atari Gamestation Pro supports several old consoles and runs MAME emulation for around $80 at Costco.

Mitxela’s prototype volumetric display, made with an 8×10 LED matrix and a “bunch of electronics underneath” including a motor hacked from a CD player, is an adorable example…

Elon Musk's peculiar on-stage behavior and expressions during a New York Times event in NYC draw comparisons to a fish from "SpongeBob SquarePants."

Before “Where’s Waldo”, there were cautionary “shadow pictures” like this one. In a shadow picture from Edward Carswell’s “Temperance Stories and Sketches”, the viewer tries to find “dr…

Saturn didn’t make it through the late-2000s financial crisis, but before it went it did a great job of explaining how absurd cars are. The ad embedded below dates to 2003 and promoted the Sa…

This vintage picture of a library shelf domino effect catastrophe gives me so much second hand anxiety. I can’t imagine the increasing panic that must have occured as the librarian witnessed one sh…

Recently, a friend shared a postcard they had received in the mail—it was a photo of a serious-looking family with the headline, “NEW FAMILY ON ST JOHNS PL.” The postcard went on to provide more in…

image: Heritage Auctions When you’re offworld seeking out extraterrestrial monoliths, you could do worse than be seen in this handsome ensemble originally worn by Dr. Bill Michaels (played by…

“The Memory Smuggler” sounds like something an AI trained on award-winning literary fantasy novels would come up with, but it’s actually this man, who tried to mule 420 (!) sticks…

Donald Trump isn’t known for his grasp of details, or even a basic understanding, on anything beyond how to manipulate his MAGA mob with hate-fueled soundbites — but he sure is good at bullsh…