Tag Archives: hardware

Cartrivision – Another Attempt to Curtail Home-Viewing

Cartrivision was the very first tape system to offer home rentals. It was introduced back [...]

What is Bluetooth?

Specs Bluetooth behaves a lot like ordinary WiFi, but over much shorter distances. It’s wavelengths [...]

Is It True Macs Don’t Get Viruses? Short Answer: No!

Absolutely not. Here’s why! Apple devices are slightly harder to weasel into from outside, but [...]

What is RFID?

Definitions RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification, and it’s usually used in the context of [...]

How Much Thinner Can A Device Really Get?

What’s the final goal of these wafer-thin devices? You’ve likely noticed it in your own [...]

How To Break A Hard Drive

1. Those Fancy Neodymium (or Rare-Earth) magnets. Strong magnets can erase credit cards and fuzz [...]

Did Always On Displays Get Good?

‘Always On’ for phone displays is a relatively new development. Of course some apps and [...]

Qwerty Board – Why?

The Typewriter A typewriter works (roughly) like this: you press a key. On the other [...]

How to Clean Your Electronics

Water is obviously out. You can’t use water on your electronics without the risk of [...]

Weird Keyboards

Stenographers Court stenographers press combinations of keys to produce certain letters, which allows them to [...]