A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even ...

Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was ...

The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a ...

We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries are, and ...

For better or worse, there are a few instruments that have been pigeonholed into specific genres of popular music. For ...

Sometimes a great hack is great for no other reason than that it’s fun, and [Michael Rechtin]’s DIY Active Aero Spoiler and Air Brake certainly qualifies as a fun hack. This is a mod designed to live ...

Nothing lasts forever, but you’d think the leaded-glass face of a CRT would not be a place you’re likely to see Father Time causing failures. Alas, the particle accelerators we all ...

These days, it’s pretty easy to slap together a single-board computer and a cheap LCD screen to whip up a cool cyberdeck fast ...

The famous cuckoo clock, with its moving, chirping mechanical bird indicating various divisions of time, has been around ...

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...

It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than ...

The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars on just the power generated from solar panels attached to the ...