Modern road and gravel bikes are highly engineered objects. It’s commonplace for their release to be accompanied by a white ...

Yet, such artifacts are rare direct sources into the lives of historical amputees. We focus on the tools amputees used in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. There are few records written from amputees’ ...

A kind of helicopter design first envisioned by the Renaissance -era Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci could help develop quieter and stealthier modern drones, according to a new study. At such a ...

There was a brief period through the 1960s into the 1970s when the last word in electronics was the calculator. New models sold for hundreds of dollars, and owning one made you very special indeed.… ...

Here are 10 modern examples of Mechanical Turks, when automation is really just humans in disguise. Daily Newsletter. Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily.

Modern mechanical keyboards come in a staggering array of switch varieties, from smooth and linear to loud and clicky, with tons of options for mechanisms and spring strength.

Technically, mechanical engineering is the application of the principles and problem-solving techniques of engineering for any object, from the design stage to its manufacturing process and the ...

But IBM’s ’80s keyboard didn’t use modern mechanical switches. It used buckling springs over a membrane sheet that made keys feel heavier to push than the keys on the preceding Model F ...

At the end of the day, building the Sat75 X was also a good reminder of how much fun it can be to build a keyboard from the ground again. A lot of the boards I’ve tested recently were pre-builds ...