While television may have been absent during the Victorian era, this didn’t stop Victorians from inventing their own unique spin on entertainment as new research shows that during the 1800s, ...

Pico projectors for phones are old news. But Pico projectors built into iPhone cases are brand new, and way more practical than stringing cables from box to box. The Pocket Projector case comes from ...

The hum of a 104-year-old projector and the voice of historian Mike Zahs were the only sounds that could be heard as the audience looked at images that were more than a century old in a dark room in ...

The Magic Lantern museum is the world’s only repository of the earliest projectors I’m not sure what I was looking up on the internet when I found it. With a name like a Disney theme-park ride, the ...

Similar to a slide projector, but with more alluring subject matter than mitosis and meiosis, magic lanterns were the 19th-century entertainment. A show at the Museum of the City of New York brought ...

LONG before the birth of the motion picture, audiences worldwide were entertained by magic lantern shows that brought popular stories, temperance tales and ghosts and ghouls to vivid life. Magic ...

One thing you probably won’t ever find at a shopping mall toy store is a child-sized digital projector. A toy cell phone - perhaps - but no child wants to rush home from daycare to play “PowerPoint.” ...