If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing ...

Although it can be hard to imagine in today’s semiconductor-powered, digital world, there was electrical technology around ...

Although generally iPads tend to keep their resale value, there are a few exceptions, such as when you find yourself burdened with iCloud-locked devices. Instead of tossing these out as e-waste, ...

Due to historical engineering decisions made many decades ago, a great many irrigation systems rely on solenoid valves that ...

Now, we can’t call these LEGO key caps for obvious reasons, but also because they don’t actually work with standard LEGO. But ...

In the early days of AI, a common example program was the hexapawn game. This extremely simplified version of a chess program learned to play with your help. When the computer made a bad move, ...

The BBC recently published an exposé revealing that some Chinese subscription sites charge for access to their network of hundreds of hidden cameras in hotel rooms. Of course, this is presumably ...

Sometimes you just know that you have the best ever idea for a hardware product, to the point that you’re willing to quit your job and make said product a reality. If only you can get the ...

As anyone who extrudes plastic noodles knows, the glass transition temperature of a material is a bit misleading; polymers gradually transition between a glass and a liquid across a range of ...

While the average person would use a standard charger to top off their phone, [Tom Stanton] is no average man. Instead, he put mind to matter with an entire pendulum battery system. Using the ...

One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as ...

We start this week with a bit of a good news/bad news situation. On February 6th, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was shut down after 25 years of operation. Located at Brookhaven ...