Home automation with high usefulness and low annoyance tends to rely on reliable person sensing, and [francescopace]’s ...

We know that while the cost per byte of persistent storage has dropped hugely over the years, it’s still a pain to fork out for a new disk drive. This must be why [MadAvidCoder] has taken a ...

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

While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology called a maser, which is the ...

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.

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

With the powerful off-the-shelf hardware available to us common hardware hobbyist folk, how hard can it be to make a ...

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 ...

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

Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that ...