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Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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These are great, and something I had wanted to do for my office but didn't get around to yet. May I suggest some actual game patents in your games section along with the hardware? I don't recall which game off the top of my head, but I've seen some that resemble the gmail/pagerank ones with a sample outlined screenshot or flowchart.

Great idea - we'll look into this, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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As far as I am aware Patent Documents are public domain, and not subject to copyright, so if someone wanted a printed patent poster they could grab the document and take it to any large format printer and have it printed there cheaper than it would cost to order from retropatents.com, and they could do this for any patent they were interested in, not just the limited selection available at your store. Does Retro Pate…

Our society encourages most people to be lazy & unimaginative, who then would rather pay a bit more money to get something readymade than go through all the steps you outlined. Same reason why all those recurring subscription cooking ingredient boxes are so popular.

This is wonderful, because if it weren't the case it'd be much harder to start a business. So congrats to the founders of that website on capturing money by firing up Photoshop and copy pasting some patent diagrams.

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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I opened this page in a new tab along with a few other articles I meant to read. After a few seconds, the page title started flashing "Don't forget this" at me. Is this a new way to avoid tab abandonment? I'm not normally one of those people who immediately closes a page that annoys me, but holy shit that was jarring. https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4i3yhsg9jpobhj/Screenshot%202017-...

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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Happy Friday! I'm the co-founder of Retro Patents and we're super proud to bring the site to the HN community. Last year, we were travelling in Europe and we came across a boutique print shop that had a Harley Davidson motorcycle patent in the window. We really liked the minimalist look to it and remembered how we'd used early product prototypes for motivation in the past. There's nothing more inspiring than seeing a…

Why not the "classics" like the Edsison light bulb or the Wright flyer patent? I consider the old ones to be beautiful

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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post #17

I'd love these with one change: drop the text at the bottom! It would be so much more fun to just have the schematic and make my guests have to guess what the patent is for. More of a conversation piece that way.

Completely agreed. The schematics look great, and the text totally throws it off as an art piece.

Re: Show HN: Retro Patents – Tech patents turned into art

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post #17

I'd love these with one change: drop the text at the bottom! It would be so much more fun to just have the schematic and make my guests have to guess what the patent is for. More of a conversation piece that way.

This is my general reaction almost all t-shirts I see for sale.
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