True or false? Your green laser pointer is more powerful than your red one. The answer is almost certainly false. They are, most likely, the same power, but your eye is far more sensitive to ...

A few months back, Sandia National Laboratories announced they had acquired a new supercomputer. It wasn’t the biggest, but ...

Earlier this year Donut Lab caused quite the furore when they unveiled what they claimed was the world’s first ...

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

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

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

Although it can be hard to imagine in today’s semiconductor-powered, digital world, there was electrical technology around before the widespread adoption of the transistor in the latter half of the ...

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 ...

A modern computer can be a great productivity tool. It can also be a great source of distractions. To solve that issue, [Quackieduckie] built the e-typer—a device for writing without distraction.

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 ...

Really, how did we get the point in this world where an exercise bike can be bricked? Such was the pickle that [ptx2] was in when their $2,000 bike by Flywheel Home Sports was left without the ...