Passengers and history buffs worried about the fate of the iconic split-flap schedule board at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station got a new reason to hope Monday. According to U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, ...

Philadelphia's famous Solari split-flap board, the centerpiece of 30th Street Amtrak station, is officially departing. Crews were spotted at 30th Street Station on Thursday night beginning to ...

The iconic split-flap board at 30th Street Station was removed this past weekend, but with any luck a new (and similarly noisy) board will take its place. While the novelty of the original, vintage ...

The soothing clicking sounds that have accompanied travelers at Amtrak’s 30th Street Station since the 1970s are coming to an end. One reason the sign is coming down is the technology behind it: The ...

Here’s a design for a split-flap clock that doesn’t do it the usual way. Instead of the flaps showing numbers , Klapklok has a bit more in common with flip-dot displays. Klapklok updates every 2.5 ...

Standing in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris in 2012, Dorrian Porter was transfixed by a sign. The station’s arrivals and departures board—a classic split-flap analog sign that constantly turns ...

[John] got his hands on a 3D printer, and did what any hacker with a new toy would, printed himself a Mutoscope. (A what?) A Mutoscope is an early flip-book based motion picture machine, and in this ...

The What: Oat Foundry has released the Smart Split Flap Display, a retro-designed, nostalgia-inspired message board for retailers, restaurants, hotels, and more, that can be controlled and automated ...

One solution to the challenge of standing out in a sea of LED video walls and digital signage is to go completely in the other direction – analog. The problem, of course, is that updating old-school, ...