The folks at Low Tech Magazine are here again, this time with a solar powered coffee maker. Lest you think of a large ...

We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 in Australia.

We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one far outweighs its value. But ...

The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure, you can ...

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,” so goes the saying, but VHS beat Betamax and the world ...

The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance HF antenna into ...

A gastroscopy is a procedure that, in simple terms, involves sticking a long, flexible tube down a patient’s throat to ...

There’s been a bit of a virtualization revolution going on for the last decade or so, where tools like Docker and LXC have ...

A while back [Clint Basinger] of Lazy Game Reviews fame purchased a rare 1980s Halikan laptop. When he received the parcel, ...

In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are ...

If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few ...