There are some devices which achieve electronic immortality, it’s likely that you have used a few of them yourself. The 555 ...

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often ...

Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that ...

With the topic of marble clocks having been quite well explored at this point, it raises the question of how easy it would be ...

Telephony is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, being able to talk to people in far off places is kind of neat, at least ...

Some of the first remote controls available to consumers used sound, visible light, or even just wires to communicate with their parent device. It was many years between these first rudimentary ...

If you’re a collector of older TVs, you’re probably facing the problem in some form of having no transmissions to tune in to. With many sets you can use a SCART or other A/V input, but ...

Bluetooth is a short-range protocol that’s great for peripherals and finding your keys, but it’s limited range is mainly a product of how it’s usually implemented. A recent video ...

There are two kinds of cyberdeck: the kind someone makes on a lark and operates purely on ‘rule of cool’, and the kind ...

The Nintendo DSi was released in November 2008, and boasted a new feature not formerly seen on the brand’s handhelds—it had ...

The Philips CD-i is a console with many shortcomings, and those include the power supply. For whatever reason, the ...

The RepRapMicron (also µRepRap) is pretty much the microscopic take on what RepRap did for more macroscale manufacturing, ...