Low-tech Magazine has awakened from its summer slumber, and while we prepare ourselves to bring you another round of ingenious low-tech solutions, persistent ecotech myths and remarkable obsolete technologies, we present to you the best mix of links from our sister publication No Tech Magazine.
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Cycle chics - style over speed
1920 off-road vehicles - obsolete technology
How far back? - steampunk
Wind-powered knitting machine - small windmills
Human powered dredger - 19th century high-tech
Automobiles on steroids - energy efficiency paradox
Guido Vigevano's wind car - extreme low-tech cars
Walk-behind tractor - farming
Polynesian stick charts - navigation
Antivirus software sucks - IT
A low-tech trick to eliminate standby power consumption - gadgets
Seasteading: floating utopias - utopias
One day we will all be writing and revising code - IT
Make a cardboard surfboard - diy
Airships past and present, 1908 - history
Smarter technology - low-tech
The body as a machine - psychology
Steel art by Chris Hausbeck - art
Historical statistics for mineral and material commodities - mining
A practical guide for automobilists, 1901 - history
Horse powered ferry boat - animal power
Shovelman - music
Ostrich car - extreme low-tech cars
Wooden bridges - construction
Homebrewed CPU - diy
Magic Motorways - car propaganda
How to depave the planet - diy
Perpetuum mobile railroad - inventions that never made it
The history of helicopters and autogyros - transport
The flying oven - solar power
Prison threadmills - history
Supporters and opponents of technology - psychology
The folly of building-integrated wind - ecotech
Sailing rockets - wind power
Materials = energy - peak everything
Bookbinding, a tutorial - diy
Miracle biofuels - ecotech
Steam engine galleries - history
Construction and farming in the 21th century - low-tech
Kicking the habit, the oil depletion protocol - energy
Economy = energy - peak everything
Wooden pipelines - construction
Build your own lo-tech turntable - diy
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