Thom Dunn is a Boston-based writer, musician, and utterly terrible dancer. He is the singer/guitarist for the indie rock/power-pop the Roland High Life, as well as a staff writer for the New York Times’ Wirecutter and a regular contributor at BoingBoing.net. Thom enjoys Oxford commas, metaphysics, and romantic clichés (especially when they involve whiskey), and he firmly believes that Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" is the single greatest atrocity committed against mankind. He is a graduate of Clarion Writer's Workshop at UCSD ('13) & Emerson College ('08).
So this is a thing that happened.
Okay so it didn't actually happen, but in 1879, The London Punch was so fed up with Edison's ubiquity that they published this series of cartoons, figuring that their lighthearted attempt of futurism really wasn't that far off from reality.
I, for one, am rather disappointed that Edison's anti-gravity underwear never actually came to fruition. After all, it's not like Edison ever shied away from stealing other peoples' ideas and claiming them as his own...
