Collaborate Disseminate
We always enjoy history videos from [The History Guy] but they don’t always cover technology history. When they do, though, we enjoy them twice as much as with the recent …read more Continue reading The History of Neon Lights
You’ve seen it a million times in science fiction movies and TV shows: a moving holographic display. From Princess Leia asking for help to virtual tennis on Total Recall, it …read more Continue reading Projecting Moving Images in Air with Lasers
Computers haven’t done much for the quality of our already poor handwriting. However, a man paralyzed by an accident can now feed input into a computer by simply thinking about …read more Continue reading Thought Control via Handwriting
In case you wanted to run WordStar on your Mac, [Tom Harte] offers CP/M for OS/X, and it looks like it would be a lot of fun. Of course you …read more Continue reading Apple Gets CP/M
Steve Martin was ahead of his time when he told us “Let’s get small!” While you usually think of a nuclear reactor as a big affair, there’s a new trend …read more Continue reading Nuclear Reactors Get Small
A great addition to a home shop is a bandsaw, but when [Design Prototype Test] got a well-used one, he found it wasn’t in very good shape. The previous owner …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Restores Bandsaw
After watching [Uncle Jessy’s] video about soy-based 3D printing resin from Elegoo and their miniature air purifiers, we couldn’t decide if the resin doesn’t smell as bad as some other …read more Continue reading Less Stinky Resin Two Ways
We’ll be honest, we were more excited by Duke University’s announcement that they’d used carbon-based inks to 3D print a transistor than we were by their assertion that it was …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Transistor Goes Green
Your airplane has crashed at sea. You are perched in a lifeboat and you need to call for help. Today you might reach for a satellite phone, but in World …read more Continue reading Historical Hackers: Emergency Antennas Launched by Kite
One of the great things about the Internet is it lets people find out what other people are doing even if they normally wouldn’t have much exposure to each other. …read more Continue reading DIN Rails for… Everything