If your travels take you near Mountain View, California, you can have the pleasure of visiting the Computer History Museum.

For most people, calculators are cheap and simple devices used for little more than addition and the odd multiplication job.

Smoothie bikes are a great way to make a nutritious beverage while getting a workout at the same time. [Tony Goacher] was ...

Everyone knows that bearings are a consumable wear item, and that the power head of a vacuum likely contains bearings that will eventually need to be replaced. Yet when the manufacturer wants you ...

When you can buy something at a low price in one location, and sell it at a higher price somewhere else, you’re engaged in what economists call “arbitrage”. We’re not sure ...

The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing ...

When last we saw [xoreaxeax], he had built a lens-less optical microscope that deduced the structure of a sample by recording ...

If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you ...

Bhaskar Das] has been tinkering with one of Nintendo’s more obscure handhelds, the DSi. The old-school console has been given a new job as part of an augmented reality app called ...

Decades ago, shows like Star Trek, The Jetsons, and Lost in Space promised us a future full of helpful computers and robot ...

An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a ...

Although jet engines are theoretically quite simple devices, in reality they tread a fine line between working as intended ...