Things categorized as 'Wired'
Infiniti Hybrid Is a Green Sedan for Silver Foxes
If you’re old enough to remember the energy policies of the Carter administration, green enough to have donated to the Nature Conservancy and young enough to get a rush of testosterone ...
How to Make a Clock Run for 10,000 Years
[caption id="attachment_2619" align="alignnone" width="1024" caption="The 10,000 year clock will look out over a spaceport and the West Texas desert."][/caption]High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among the brush, is ...
May 25, 1945: Sci-Fi Author Predicts Future by Inventing It
1945: Arthur C. Clarke begins privately circulating copies of a paper that proposes using space satellites for global communications.It was a bold suggestion for 1945, as the war was just winding ...
DIY Lasers Are Irresistibly Dangerous
Decades after its birth, the laser is still irresistibly cool.How many other fifty-somethings can you say that about?Even though lasers are as common as dirt now, appearing in everything from DVD ...
Fire Artist Mixes Propane, High Voltage
SEATTLE — Rusty Oliver sets things on fire.During our visit to his workspace, the aptly-named Hazardfactory, he demonstrated how two long propane-filled tubes can act as a kind of ...
Ballmer to Skype Fans: You Can Trust Us
SAN FRANCISCO — Trust us. We’re not going to screw up Skype.That was the message Microsoft delivered Tuesday, hours after formally announcing that it was buying the internet telephony pioneer for a ...
Handerpants, Devil Duckies and Rubber Chickens: Inside Archie McPhee
[caption id="attachment_2583" align="alignnone" width="1000" caption="A bathtub full of Devil Duckies at Archie McPhee's Seattle store."][/caption]SEATTLE -- It's hard to explain Archie McPhee.Instead, let's start with some of the things you can ...
Infoporn: How Flatscreen TVs Get Cheaper
Like multicore computer chips, Android smartphones, and Starbucks coffee, LCD TVs are getting cheaper—and bigger—all the time. Inevitably, your brother-in-law’s new 55-inch TV cost less than the 48-inch model you bought ...
Exercise Wet, While Your Phone Stays Dry
My phone is about as integrated into my life as my left temporal lobe. I’m not going running without it.That’s why the H2O Audio Amphibx Fit Armband ($60) is a boon ...