Form is temporary, function is permanent. The most important inventions are the ones that relate to the human condition, and they crop up over and over again. Below, Houston shares five key insights ...

While it's too big to fit in your pocket, the 35s follows in the tradition of a long series of handheld calculators. Every once in a while, I come across a product where I say, I've got to take that ...

If you like Nixie tubes and/or DIY calculators, checkout this interesting talk from the HP Handheld Conference in Orlando last month by [Eric Smith] from Brouhaha and [John Doran] from Time Fracture.

The HP-35 scientific calculator managed to replace the slide rule almost overnight, using a legendary combination of form and function. The HP-35 scientific calculator managed to replace the slide ...

Back in my previous life, I was a finance guy—that’s what my undergraduate degree is in, and that’s how I made my living for many years. Through it all, one particular piece of gear was always at my ...

Believe it or not, there are some retro gadgets that are even too old for us. So we must seize on them while we can, because soon the only machines that will fall into this category will be from the ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...