Kicker: Saving old tech

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NICK EICHER, HOST: In a world driven by technology, one man in India is rescuing yesterday’s tech innovations from oblivion. Anthropologist Aditya Vig calls himself a “history hunter.”

VIG: Every product … has played a role.

Every product from century-old matchboxes to wartime cameras and typewriters, his home is a veritable time capsule full of artifacts. Thousands of them that he calls “unrecorded history”!

VIG: I try to write that unrecorded history through my collections.

He once saved a vintage radio just seconds before a scrap dealer smashed it! Vig hopes to open a museum so children understand life before the touchscreen.

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