A toilet paper holder, especially a pretty one like this one, is a brilliant storage solution for anywhere in your home. With ...

After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer, [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric farm ...

Out of tape and wrapping paper? Try these last-minute Christmas hacks The Christmas clock is ticking. You’ve been wrapping presents all day. You’re almost finished. Then it happens. "Oh no, I’m out of ...

Clearly, no one in that writers' room ever met my grandma Ida Lou Polcari. She taught me that, in order to wrap a beautiful ...

In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.

SAN FRANCISCO — Stop. There's more to recycling your Christmas paper than stuffing everything into a big blue bin. U.S. trash companies are increasingly having to send what would have been waste-paper ...

Input devices consisting of optical readers for punched paper tape have been around since the earliest days of computing, so why stop now? [Jürgen]’s Paper Tape Reader project connects to any modern ...