The new mechanical computer uses 64 physical cubes to represent binary bits and is inspired by kirigami — the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

From the moment we wake up until we close our eyes to sleep, we are surrounded by screens. Even if your job doesn't necessitate staring at a monitor all day, studies show that we spend an average of ...

Ahead of Apple’s 50th anniversary, RR Auction is auctioning a trove of historic artifacts, including the first check written ...

Those who read on paper rather than digitally may grasp "big picture" better. A recent study found worker bees toiling for more than 55 hours a week were more at risk for stroke and other cardiac ...

Computing used to run on punch cards. Great stacks of cards would run middling programs, with data output onto more punched cards in turn. [Nii] has built a machine in this vein, capable of punching ...

Building a paper tape reader by itself isn’t super complicated: you need a source of light, some photoreceptors behind the tape to register the presence of holes and some way to pull the tape through ...