The Race Up The World’s Longest Staircase (Cool Weird Awesome 555)
Adventurous type headed to Switzerland each year for a race like no other: a run up a world record staircase known as the Niesen Stairway Run.
The Butler In A Box Was A Smart Speaker Before There Were Smart Speakers (Cool Weird Awesome 487)
You know about the Echo and the Google Home, but do you know about the Butler In A Box? It was a voice-controlled smart home device in the 1980s, and could do many of the same things our smart speakers do today. Plus: it's the birthday of Dr. Mark Dean, a computing pioneer who helped create some of the most important technology we have, and also saw the future of technology quite a few times.
In The 1980s, You Downloaded Video Games Off The Radio (Cool Weird Awesome 337)
Today we download video games online all the time. Back in the 1980s, gamers without the Internet (such as it was) had to buy or borrow their games. But a few could download programs off the radio.