What seemed cutting-edge a decade ago now collects dust in attics and thrift stores. But here’s the thing—most of us remember these gadgets for their mainstream glory days, not for the quirky, ...

Walk into any record store today, and what do you see? Vinyl everywhere. An obsolete medium that was supposed to have been replaced by cassettes and then CDs back in the 1980s and 1990s has bounced ...

THE FIRST TIME I SAW STAR WARS, A MONTH INTO ITS release, I found myself struck not by the special effects, nor even the story, but by the fact that the technology in the film looked so, well, ...

Hospitals are one of the few industries that still use obsolete communication technologies, such as pagers, and the cumulative effect of relying on those systems costs U.S. hospitals more than $5.15 ...

As I passed the horse and buggy, I noticed a buggy whip in the driver’s hand. While buggy whips are the standard analogy for obsolete technology, here I was confronted with one currently in use. Any ...

The 1990s produced a specific category of technology that was simultaneously frustrating and deeply satisfying in ways that nothing in the current landscape quite replicates. Things worked differently ...

Its reliance on Chinese supply has shifted the technological balance in Europe’s PV deployments. Image: Trina Solar. PERC solar PV technology is “all but obsolete” in Europe, as the flow of cheap ...