Our Flickr Pools Still Bubbling; Welcome Intern Mk. II

Our second intern, Brian Dunn*, has been tasked with getting our Flickr pools hot and healthy. He'll be checking in each week with highlights, including the newest addition which we're calling simply "Boing Boing Gadgets," a sort of catch-all we hope you'll throw stuff into that might work as good "stock photography" for posts here on Boing Boing Gadgets. (Of course, they might be photography, but you get the idea. We do ask that everything that goes in be Creative Commons Attribution licensed for simplicity's sake and that, of course, you have the right to grant that license in the first place.) Okay, enough from me: Wecome, Dunn! –Joel

Now that we have "In the Year 2000" and "Electro Selecto", we're taking our Flickr groups a step further with one specifically dedicated to the site. In the "Boing Boing Gadgets" group, you can post any images you think might be useful for the blog. We're looking for pictures to fill out any posts that lack visual content.

Both "In the Year 2000" and "Electro Selecto" are filling out nicely, but we're insatiable. Keep posting anything you can find. "Electro Selecto" currently features a smorgasbord of old advertisements posted by spike55151 and hytam2. Isaac Asimov shows up with his massive mutton chops to pimp Radio Shack. Ray Charles and Melissa Manchester duke it out over recording tape: Memorex or Scotch? Sony just wants people to be a little nicer to their speakers. Included as well is this creepy instruction manual for The Imagination Machine, where the man's stare calls into question who is imagining what. And of course, Joel reminds us that Atari programming requires more bondage than one would expect.

Avi_Abrams wins the "In the Year 2000" gold star with 34 images, including one of some badass Soviet hydroplane, a rather phallic rocket ship, and a pyramid city. scrubbles posted a series of images from Sentinel by Syd Mead, all of which are quite gorgeous. There's the perplexing Unipod Gyroscopically Balanced Personal Vehicle, learning capsules, and 3D TV (complete with pod chairs). whoever, whomever reaches even further back to 1910's vision of 2000. Gaze in wonder at curiosities like hand-delivered phonograph cylinders, creepy learning caps, and lots and lots of anachronistic airplanes. Also, in the future, radiation doesn't kill everybody.

Tiny cars are apparently all the rage in the future. This man laughs it up in his Funmobile, while this dour man plots mayhem between a set of giant wheels. Future technology meets dated gender roles: the men use their video phones for work and the women use them for shopping.

That's all a great haul, but there must be more out there. So seek it out and join the fun! This man would approve.

Add your meat flavor to our Flickr pools, humans! In the Year 2000 (Retro-future imagery); Electro Selectro (Old advertisements and catalogs); Boing Boing Gadgets (Otherwise interesting imagery!)

* Yes, two Brians! Hence, "Copeland" and "Dunn." They will later form an '80s folk duo.