Nick] came across an awesome Bluetooth speaker online, only, there was a problem. It didn’t really exist—it was just a render of a device that would be nice to have. Of course, there was an ...

Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are great catalysts, but they’re also great investments — in the sense that they are very, very expensive. Just ask the guy nicking car exhausts in the ...

Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over eighty ...

If you’re at all familiar with digital computing, you’ll know that computers represent everything in binary values of one and ...

D printing has had its time to spread its wings into the everyday home, yet many of those homes lack the proper ventilation ...

Reading analog clocks is a pretty straightforward skill to learn. However, if you’ve already learned to read and don’t want ...

If a zipper breaks, a 3D printer might not be the first tool one reaches for — but it’s more feasible than one might think. [MisterJ]’s zipper slider replacement is the kind of ...

Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have ...

GNU Radio Companion was proving to be a powerful tool, but it just didn’t look… cool enough. The solution? A custom bit of ...

It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put aside their ...

Cooking with charcoal is a fairly common human activity, as much as others have come to prefer fuels like propane and propane accessories for their outdoor, summertime grilling. Although ...

On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU ...