Collaborate Disseminate
John Lennon’s 1964 Framus 5/024 Hootenanny famously played on the title track of The Beatles’ 1965 album Help! – and believed lost for more than 50 years – is heading to auction next month, where it’s expected to break records.
Category: Music, Technology
Tags: Auction, Julien’s Auctions, The Beatles, Guitar, Acoustics, Collecting
Continue reading John Lennon’s long-lost Help! acoustic expected to break auction records
Two-stroke streetbikes have never sold well at auction – but in the last few weeks, something strange has been happening. Kawasaki’s Mach IV H2, the notorious 750cc “Widowmaker,” is setting record prices after a flurry of sales to a single buyer.Contin… Continue reading Who is buying all the Kawasaki Mach IV Widowmakers?
In 2007 a retired Canadian doctor paid €13,200 (USD $14,256) for a well-used second edition of Andreas Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica (1555), one of the most influential books in history. Only 150 copies are known. The book had been in the hands of collectors for more than four centuries and had extensive latin annotations by an unknown hand.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: De humani corporis fabrica, Andreas Vesalius, Christie’s, Auction
Continue reading Breaking: “bookfind of the century” sells for $2.23 million
The term “once in a lifetime offer” has unfortunately become an advertising trope, making it difficult to cut through the clutter when something genuinely unicorn-rare comes along. The discovery, weaponization and use of nuclear power will remain one o… Continue reading Auction alert: ‘Atomic Energy’ signed by Einstein, Oppenheimer & others
Most of us probably have a vision of how “The Robots” will eventually rise up and deal humanity out of the game. We’ve all seen that movie, of course, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 10, 2023
If you’ve ever wanted a pair of gloves associated with one of the great leaps in computer technology, now’s the time. Prototype typing gloves developed by Douglas Engelbart and Valerie Landau to replace keyboards as interface devices are up for auction… Continue reading Computer input gloves made by the inventor of the mouse up for auction
A rare and large Pteranodon skeleton sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York this evening for US$3,932,000, adding further weight to the influence of the Jurassic Park franchise and moving into the top five most valuable fossils of all-time: behind only Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops and Gorgosaurus.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Auction, Sotheby’s, Fossils, Pteranodon
Continue reading Pteranodon sells for US$3.9 million to join fossil pantheon
A truly historic Space Age recording is up for auction as the personal copy of the master tapes belonging to Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan for the crafting of the Golden Record that flew on Voyager 1 and 2 goes on the block at Sotheby’s.
Tags: Auction, NASA, Voyager, Sotheby’s
Continue reading Carl Sagan’s personal Golden Record tapes go on the block
Personal information is going for a song, and the banks want social media sites to pay when their users get scammed.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cl… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #322: When you buy a criminal’s phone, and paying for social media scams
A six-page autograph manuscript by Albert Einstein entitled “The Essence of the Theory of Relativity” is being auctioned tonight and scientific voyeurs might care to watch the fun as the heavy hitters come out to play. The auction will be live on the i… Continue reading Einstein paper heads for auction tonight – a bargain in the offing?