Collaborate Disseminate
Analog radio broadcasts are pretty simple, right? Tune into a given frequency on the AM or FM bands, and what you hear is what you get. Or at least, that …read more Continue reading Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn’t Know Were There
These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a …read more Continue reading Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?
A long-term project of mine is the the Sony Vaio new mainboard project. A year ago, I used it as an example to show you the cool new feature in …read more Continue reading Sony Vaio Revived: How Does One Start?
In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushion of …read more Continue reading The Hovercraft Revolution and Finding the Right Niche for a Technology
Having a penchant for cheap second-hand cameras can lead to all manner of interesting equipment. You never know what the next second-hand store will provide, and thus everything from good …read more Continue reading Disc Film,When Kodak Pushed Convenience Too Far
It’s fair to say that climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge facing our planet, and while much attention is directed towards solutions to the problems it presents, perhaps there’s …read more Continue reading Unconventional Oil Production, All You Need to Know
OK, I know. We don’t have practical teleportation. But that hasn’t stopped generations of science fiction authors and movie makers from building stories around it. If you ask most ordinary …read more Continue reading A Brief History of Teleportation
Ever wonder how those scratch and sniff stickers manage to pack a punch of aroma into what looks like ordinary paper? The technology behind it is deceptively clever, and has …read more Continue reading Scratch And Sniff Stickers And The Gas Panic of ’87
So now we’ve talked about all kinds of byproducts, including man-made (Fordite), nature-made (fulgurites), and one that’s a little of both (calthemites). Each of these is beautiful in its own …read more Continue reading Boss Byproducts: Corium Is Man-Made Lava
Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. …read more Continue reading Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes and the End of Winged Tubes