The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing ...

Everyone knows that bearings are a consumable wear item, and that the power head of a vacuum likely contains bearings that will eventually need to be replaced. Yet when the manufacturer wants you ...

When last we saw [xoreaxeax], he had built a lens-less optical microscope that deduced the structure of a sample by recording ...

When you can buy something at a low price in one location, and sell it at a higher price somewhere else, you’re engaged in what economists call “arbitrage”. We’re not sure ...

An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a ...

Over the past years, the author of the cURL project, [Daniel Stenberg], has repeatedly complained about the increasingly poor ...

If you are interested in historical big computers, you probably think of IBM, with maybe a little thought of Sperry Rand or, if you go smaller, HP, DEC, and companies like Data General. But you ...

Before the refrigerator became a normal part of any kitchen, those with enough money to throw around could get an icebox, ...

Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that ...

If you’re reading this, you probably have some fondness for human-crafted language. After all, you’ve taken the time to ...

Carbon fiber (CF) has attained somewhat of a near-mystical appeal in consumer marketing, with it being praised for being ...

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred dollars, and that is just the entry ...