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In Defense of the CFL: A Retrospective
Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating
The GeoSafari Jr. was a cleverly flexible kid\'s game
Reusable handwarmers that get hot by freezing
Exploring the Technology Connections Set (1 million subscribers special)
Humidifiers: Simpler is better?
Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)
Bubble Lights: The Weirdest Christmas Light?
What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?
The Antique Microwave Oven that\'s Better than Yours
1970\'s Camera Tech: How they showed you what settings to use
Forced-air Furnaces: The What, Why, and How
Electric car chargers aren\'t chargers at all – EVSE Explained
The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you\'d think!
Retroreflectors; they\'re everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of)
A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145
The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems!
Personal \"air conditioners\" aren\'t what they seem
Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
Laptop Docks! They\'re pretty neat!
The US electrical system is not 120V
How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940\'s
Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light
Fans; High is next to Off on purpose
DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?
Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast
Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox\'s Brain
The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)
Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat
Brown; color is weird
Race to the finish; RCA\'s final gamble (CED Part 5)
Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED\'s march towards eventual invention (CED Part 4)
Film: the reason some of the past was in HD
One more thing: the VHS notch
Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?
LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie
The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta
RCA\'s CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)
The VFD that isn\'t
LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC
The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)
The CED: RCA\'s Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
The Weird World in RGB
Switches are Clicky; Here\'s Why
Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need?
TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard
The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it\'s a little weird)
Portable Air Conditioners - Why you shouldn\'t like them
Automatic Record Changers: We used to like them
Thermostats: Cooler than you think!
Flexplay: The Disposable DVD that Failed (Thankfully)
The Antique Toaster that\'s Better than Yours
E-Ink on Android, and other new things!
Exploring the World of E-Ink
The Electromagnet in Your Toaster
The Story of Disney\'s PeopleMover in Texas
Space Heater Nonsense
The Time-Lapse VCR
The Odd History of the SD Logo
DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive
The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that\'s its name
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
LightScribe: HP\'s Clever Twist on the CD Burner
The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven\'t Heard Of
Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
The Compact Disc: An Introduction
The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
Betamovie: Sony\'s Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
The LED\'s Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of \"But Sometimes!\"
The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
Sony\'s Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
Laserdisc\'s Failure: What Went Wrong
Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
Laserdisc: An Introduction
Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once