US old-timers engineer own version of miracle
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High up among the many empty seats at the Xcel Energy Center last night sat a small knot of Russian fans holding a large banner that read Miracle is over.
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Grandpa developed a waterproofing molecule and the family put it in building materials to stop problems with seepage. The business is called Hycrete.
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What The Associated Press described as test pilot Michael Melvill&#39;s &quot;corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride&quot; on the first leg of SpaceShipOne&#39;s successful attempt to win the $10 million X-Prize, was actually a remarkable rendition of what generations of
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The creator of a new video recorder, has invited skilled users to customize or âhackâ its device and share the improvements with others.
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A dozen years ago I asked a friend of mine if he would share with me a technical indicator he had invented. He responded, &quot;No problem, after I am done with it.
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Doctors are often lauded as miracle workers, but even the most skilled have patients they can't help. Demetrios Leontaris keeps a picture of one on his cell phone organizer.
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We sold off our albums years ago, but analog die-hards will love the spectacular performance of VPI Industries' H-16.5 record cleaner. In Gadget Lab.
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A touring song-and-dance performance uses musical sounds recorded by Icelandic engineers in the 1960s who worked with the decades-old, room-size computer. Older IBM-heads are loving it.
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The blueprint for a tiny, rugged mechanical computer has been inspired by ideas put forward 200 years ago.
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Can a computer program generate new works from long dead legends? By Douglas McGray from Wired magazine.
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Japanese engineers show their work on Super Hi-Vision, which could replace today's HDTV.
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Some months ago I started collecting the pieces I needed to build my own 64-bit computer. I'm not a complete stranger to building machines, I've put together a dozen or so during the past twenty years, but it's been quite a while since I started one from scratch, and my experience with this machine was more instructive than it was meant to be. Nevertheless, at long last Studio Dave has gone 64-bit crazy. Well, not really crazy, but certainly more than mildly enthusiastic.
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In a high-tech age of instant communication, old-fashioned history is enjoying a renaissance in U.S. popular culture.
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The light bulb Thomas Edison invented 125 years ago is getting more than a make-over. The government is pulling the plug on it.
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Comment is free: Phil Harding: A revolution in ambition and intelligence has brought us films to rival those of the 40s and 70s
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Dou Simin is ready to go straight. The 26-year-old engineer owns a PC with a bootlegged copy of Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows operating system. But now he's considering replacing it with a new machine loaded with the genuine article.
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Company helps dust off and release an old HP Labs optical character recognition engine.