Korea's LG revived this technology zombie once more this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, promising us that you'll be able to text your fridge and "ask it whether it has milk or butter".
A new propulsion system for going to Mars would likely call for reviving old technology — nuclear-powered rocket engines that were originally developed in the 1950s.
The need for mass storage is reviving a technology which, only a few years ago, seemed destined for the scrapheap: magnetic tape.Tape is the oldest computer storage medium still in use.
In the last few years, though, companies set on reviving the technology have designed a new generation of equipment to deliver a vast flow of data reliably, not only when confronted by such urban obstacles as venetian blinds and window washers, but in the face of more elemental disruptions like fog and earthquakes, too.
"I'd like to see the consequences of my decisions really help revive the technology sector," he says.
Those who are feeling suddenly nostalgic, you can likely pick one up used fairly easily (though this news might bump up their premium a bit), and I'm sure the inevitable Kickstarter project to revive the technology can't be too far off, because that's how these things go now.
Players take on the role of Jura, a wannabe Ranger in a world populated with "vivosaurs" – dinosaurs revived by advanced technology.
Slickest of all, however, is that Mazda has revived rotary engine technology once again (it keeps doing it), and in this edition, it's getting all that horsepower from a tiny, 1.3-liter engine.
Your columnist added to the list by leaving his fetid cell in The Economist and walking 20 yards to Emma Willis's shop in Jermyn Street, which produces all of its clothes in a small factory in Gloucester, including shooting socks made on a Victorian sock loom.How do businesses go about reviving old technologies in the face of so much innovation?
There is a trend to revive mature technologies while including high voltage options.
