In the summer of 1900, a group of sponge divers off the coast of Antikythera, a Greek island, stumbled upon a shipwreck that ...

In Episode 2 of Jiwi's Machines, we take destruction to a new level watch as a computer gets systematically dismantled in the ...

Heh, how curious! I’m currently restoring my old Amiga 1200 and wondered about a mechanical keyboard. I got stuck at how I’d best “interface” the original keycaps to MX switches.

Penk Chen on GitHub built a handheld PC that looks like it fits in a sci-fi movie from the ‘90s. If it looks appealing, then you can build your own Penkesu by following the guide.

The resulting 5-layer mechanical computer quickly ran into the limits of tolerances and friction, and the team eventually had trouble getting their design to work with the available input forces.

A new mechanical computer made from an array of rigid, interconnected plastic cubes can store, retrieve and erase data simply by stretching the array and manipulating the position of the cubes. The ...

Visitors look at a fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device, is seen at Museum in Athens, Greece on Aug. 26, 2018.

The Seneca is the first luxury keyboard from Norbauer & Co, a company that would like to be for keyboards what Leica is to ...

Mechanical keyboards have made a resurgence—and you can make one to suit your needs. Here's what we learned.

Parts of the Flight Computer. The mechanical E6B flight computer has two sides: the windside, which a pilot uses to determine ground speed and wind correction angles, and the calculator side that ...

In the mid-1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing (pictured) began theorizing ways that a computer could play chess against a human. Across the Atlantic, in 1949, Bell Labs researcher Claude ...

In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs.