Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that ...

Stoppi] always has interesting blog posts and videos, even when we don’t understand all the German in them. The latest?

Wall clocks! Are they very accurate? Well, sometimes they are, and sometimes they lose minutes a day. If you’ve got one that ...

Mankind has been using water to mark the passage of time for thousands of years. From dripping stone pots in Ancient Egypt to the more mechanically-complicated Greco-Roman Clepsydrae, the history ...

Although firmly entrenched in the cultural zeitgeist now, the skateboard wasn’t always a staple of popular culture. It had a pretty rocky start as surfers jankily attached roller skating ...

The good part about FDM 3D printing is that there are so many different filament types and parameters to choose from. This is also the bad part, as it can often be hard to tell what impact a ...

Most of you know how an NFC tag works. The reader creates an RF field that has enough energy to power the electronics in the ...

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games.

Home routers and cable modems are now extremely powerful devices, but they all suffer from the attention of their ...

When it comes to getting retro hardware running again, there are many approaches. On one hand, the easiest path could be to ...

After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it being old and decrepit. Or at least that’s what ...

As Earthlings, most of us don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about the gravity on our home planet. Instead, we go about our days only occasionally dropping things or tripping over ...