"Gadgets" Blogs & Blog Posts

Calculating Empires is a "a genealogy of technology and power since 1500" — a beautiful and interactive monochrome chart you can zoom in and out of to trace the connections between all such things in the modern age. I immediately crash zoomed in an...

This 1953 U.S. Navy training film discusses the mechanisms used by the fire control computers. Yes, mechanical computers calculating fire control for big-ass guns—though 70 years ago, men were still needed to move the dials. [via Hacker News] The...

The Zeromouse v35 is a $70 kit you can buy that results in the lightest mouse known to gaming—just 16 grams! It requires that you procure a Razer Viper V2 Pro—a $130 proposition by itself—and then harvest its guts. What you get is an extremely...

An implanted device automatically administers naloxone, sold in the U.S. as Narcan, to counteract the effects of opioid overdoses. It has worked well in animals, reviving 24 out of 25 overdosed pigs within 3.2 minutes, though no human testing has yet...

I like small but not too-small laptops: smaller than the 11.6" Chromebooks, but big enough to type on1. At just 8.8" inches, the new GPD Pocket 4 lands for me in the "too small" category—but I'm tempted, still, because it's the first such device to...

Would it be perverse to say I would miss the old-timey coiling phoneline cord? Vortex's M0110 is a modern USB-C and wireless clone of the classic Macintosh keyboard, with Cherry or Gateron switches and various international layouts. Just look at the...

Humane's AI pin was roughly received. Functionally a tiny Android device without a screen, its unique UI called for a level of reliability that isn't there yet with voice assistants, leading to frustration for users and "scathing" reviews. And return...