Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The NEO With The Typewriter Shell

Isn’t this glorious? If you don’t recognize what this is right away (or from the post title), it’s an AlphaSmart NEO word processor, repackaged in a 3D-printed typewriter-esque shell, meticulously …read more

Real LED TVs Are Finally Becoming A Thing

Once upon a time, the cathode ray tube was pretty much the only type of display you’d find in a consumer television. As the analog broadcast world shifted to digital, …read more

The Death Of Baseload And Similar Grid Tropes

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard proclamations such as that ‘baseload is dead’ and …read more

Practice Makes Perfect: The Wet Dress Rehearsal

If you’ve been even casually following NASA’s return to the Moon, you’re likely aware of the recent Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for the Artemis II mission. You probably also heard …read more

Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea

Let’s face it; remembering a bunch of passwords is the pits, and it’s just getting worse as time goes on. These days, you really ought to have a securely-generated key-smash …read more

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LEGO Orrery Gets A Real-Time Drive Upgrade

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By Lewin Day | February 17, 2026

An orrery is a beautiful type of mechanical contrivance, built to demonstrate the motion of heavenly objects. LEGO happens to offer just such a device, built using its Technic line …read more
Running Pokémon With A Compass And Straightedge

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By Aaron Beckendorf | February 17, 2026

The ancient question of whether or not it’s possible to construct a circle with the same area as a given square using only a drawing compass and straightedge was finally …read more
The Complicated Legacy Of Mind Controlled Toys

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By Tom Nardi | February 17, 2026

Imagine a line of affordable toys controlled by the player’s brainwaves. By interpreting biosignals picked up by the dry electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes in an included headset, the game could infer …read more
AirTag Has Hole Behind The Battery? It’s Likely Been Silenced

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By Donald Papp | February 17, 2026

Apple AirTags have speakers in them, and the speaker is not entirely under the owner’s control. [Shahram] shows how the speaker of an AirTag can be disabled while keeping the …read more
Using 3D Printed Breadboards To Accommodate Wide Boards

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By Maya Posch | February 17, 2026

Although off-the-shelf breadboards are plentiful and cheap, they almost always seem to use the same basic design. Although you can clumsily reassemble most of them by removing the voltage rail …read more
Performing An Autopsy On 15 Dead Battle Born LFP Batteries

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By Maya Posch | February 16, 2026

Because size matters when it comes to statistics, [Will Prowse] decided to not just bank on his handful of failed Battle Born LFP batteries when it came to documenting their …read more
What The FDA’s 2026 Wellness Device Update Means For Wearables

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By Maya Posch | February 16, 2026

With more and more sensors being crammed into the consumer devices that many of us wear every day, the question of where medical devices begin and end, and how they …read more

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