If we care to cast an eye over the history of ubiquitous personal computing as we know it today, we might immediately point ...

The humble credit card reader — most of us have used hundreds, perhaps even thousands of them over the years. But even for ...

Bridges! We kind of expect them to just be there and do their job, ad infinitum. They are built into the landscape, and we ...

There are some devices which achieve electronic immortality, it’s likely that you have used a few of them yourself. The 555 ...

The Pokéwalker is a gadget that was sold alongside the Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver games for the Nintendo DS which players could use to take a Pokémon out on a walk in the real world. Not only ...

Trucks are handy, especially if you’ve got messy or dirty loads, but there aren’t a lot of options if you want a small ...

Angus] of Maker’s Muse enjoys combat robotics, in which contenders zip about in an arena, attempting to disable one another ...

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often ...

[Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The generator uses sodium and water, which, if you remember your old chemistry ...

Recently [Tucker Osman] brought to life what once was just a meme created by the BBC as it poked fun at Apple’s push for ever smaller devices that also dropped many features along the path towards ...

The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has since been developed to ...

The Intel era of Apple Macs led to so-called “Hackintoshes”, more normal PCs running x86 MacOS X. Now Bryan Keller proves that a Hackintosh isn’t restricted to the x86 era, not by doing it with a ...