Collaborate Disseminate
The writer Cory Doctrow coined the term enshittification to describe the way that services decline in quality as their users become the product. He was talking about online services when …read more Continue reading The Insurance Buys The Wheelchair, But Not The App To Run It
There was a time when all you needed to use your car was a key. On older vehicles it was a traditional metal key, on more recent ones it had …read more Continue reading Older Nissan Leafs Lose Their App, Are They The First Of Many?
As electric drives sweep their way to dominance in the automotive world, there’s another transport sector in which their is also continuing apace. Electric-assisted bicycles preserve the feeling of riding …read more Continue reading How Powerful Should An Electric bike Be? The UK Is Asking
We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Free Piston Engine
There are many benefits to learning to fly an airplane, drive a racing car, or operate some complex piece of machinery. Ideally, you’d do so in a perfectly safe environment, …read more Continue reading Car Driving Simulators for Students, or: When Simulators Make Sense
There’s something magical about a train, whether you call it a railway or a railroad, plenty of us have hankered after our own little piece of line on which to …read more Continue reading 3D Print Train Wheels For Garden Railway
While we absolutely support the right of everyone to express their opinions, it seems to us that it’s rarely wise to turn your vehicle into a mobile billboard for your …read more Continue reading AI-Powered Bumper Sticker Provides Context-Sensitive Urban Camouflage
Street sledding, a popular pastime in Norway, is an activity that is slowly dwindling in popularity, at least as far as [Justin] aka [Garage Avenger] has noticed. It used to …read more Continue reading Bringing Modern Technology to a Sled
We have all heard the statistics on how safe air travel is, with more people dying and getting injured on their way to and from the airport than while traveling …read more Continue reading How Airplanes Mostly Stopped Flying Into Terrain And Other Safety Improvements
Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it …read more Continue reading Sailing (Directly) Into the Wind