Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection ...

Whenever there’s a superlative involved, you know that degree of optimization has to leave something else on the table. In ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It’s a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you ...