Inventions
How VHS Tapes Invented On-Demand Everything
February 17, 2019
August 30, 1983 -- models pose with VHS releases from Embassy Home Video Entertainment, touting a promotion via the UK's Sun newspaper. (Photo by Russell McPhedran/Fairfax Med...
Benihana Founder Rocky Aoki: From Wrestler To Restaurat...
November 29, 2016
Benihana founder Rocky Aoki was a larger-than-life character who built an immense restaurant empire and lived an even more interesting life. Hiroaki "Rock...
First Video Game? Try Spacewar!, Which Beat Pong By A D...
November 29, 2016
Everybody knows that Pong was the first video game, right? Spacewar! seems to have had it beat, though -- by about a decade. Pong, which resembles ping-pong,...
The Most Influential Inventions Of The 1960s and 1970s
November 29, 2016
One of the cool things about technology is to see the impact it has on people and how they interact with each other. Sometimes the things you used everyday growing u...
