These days, you get a fantastic camera with the purchase of just about any modern smartphone. [Abe] missed some of the charm ...

The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator.  The devil here is, of course, in all ...

Cartridge-based consoles have often been celebrated for their robust and reliable media. You put a simple ROM chip in a tough ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

Modern hospitals use a lot of computers. Architecturally speaking, they’re pretty typical machines—running the same CPUs and ...

The Amiga 600 was in its day the machine nobody really wanted — a final attempt to flog the almost original spec 68000 platform from 1985, in 1992. Sure it had a PCMCIA slot nobody used, and ...

Hopscotch is a game usually played with painted lines or with the aid of a bit of chalk. However, if you desire fancier equipment, you might like the interactive hopscotch setup from [epatell].

It sometimes seems as though we are in a constant tussle over privacy between governments and the governed, with each year ...

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in ...

Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers ...

These days, Internet connectivity is ubiquitous, so you can look up live weather data on just about any device around you.

The G4 iMac is one of the more popular computers in the restomodding scene given its charm and unparalleled ergonomics. Most ...