Collaborate Disseminate
The middle of the 20th century produced a revolution in understated stylish consumer design, some of which lives on today. The reality of living in a 1950s or ’60s house …read more Continue reading Wooden Case Makes a 2026 TV Stylish
If you want to play with the coolest kids on the block when it comes to photography, you have to shoot film. Or so say the people who shoot film, …read more Continue reading 180 Shots on a Roll with the Little Stupid Camera
The joy of camera hacking lies for many at the low end of the market. Not working with many-thousand-dollar Leicas, but in cheap snapshot cameras that can be had for …read more Continue reading It’s Not a Lomo Smena 8M, But it’s Not Far Off
Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source …read more Continue reading Three Decades Of ReactOS
A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper phone line. First the corded landline phone was replaced by …read more Continue reading When Mains Networking Fails, Use Phone Wires
There are many solutions for remote control keyboards, be they Bluetooth, infrared, or whatever else. Often they leave much to be desired, and come with distinctly underwhelming physical buttons. [konkop] …read more Continue reading A Keyboard for Anything, Without a Keyboard
In 1958, the American free-market economist Leonard E Read published his famous essay I, Pencil, in which he made his point about the interconnected nature of free market economics by following …read more Continue reading I, Integrated Circuit
Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so …read more Continue reading Symbian On Nokia Lives Again, In 2026
Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning your language than people like you are at learning theirs. It’s …read more Continue reading Ysgrifennu Côd yn Gymraeg (Writing Code in Welsh)
My colleague Lewin on the other side of the world has recently bought himself a new camera. It’s a very cute little thing, a Kodak Charmera, the latest badge-engineered device …read more Continue reading The Surprising Hackability Of A Knock-Off Chinese Toy Camera