Category: Gadgets

I spent thirty-four years watching teenagers stare blankly at physics textbooks, and if there is one thing I learned, it’s that people love to complicate the simple. You’ll see advertisements…

I was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through my loupe at the escapement of a 19th-century French carriage clock, when I realized how much the tech industry relies…

I spent thirty-four years watching students stare blankly at a chalkboard, waiting for me to translate the invisible laws of physics into something they could actually feel. Now, I see…

Last Tuesday, I found myself staring at a tangled nest of copper wiring and cracked lithium-ion casings in my workshop, wondering why the “official” guides make everything so needlessly complicated.…

I was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through a jeweler’s loupe at the escapement of a 1920s pendulum clock, when I realized I had been treating my old…

I remember sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, the smell of isopropyl alcohol sharp in the air, staring at a second-hand tablet that looked perfectly fine on the surface. It…

I remember sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through a jeweler’s loupe at a “mint condition” tablet a neighbor had tried to sell me. The seller had waxed the…

I was hunched over my workbench last Tuesday, the smell of ozone and old solder hanging heavy in the air, trying to coax a stubborn escapement back to life in…

I spent thirty-four years watching students try to calculate the velocity of a falling object using nothing but a prayer and a poorly drawn diagram, so I have a very…

Stop letting marketing departments convince you that a higher megapixel count is the only thing that matters. I’ve spent decades looking at how things actually work—usually with a screwdriver in…