This morning, I spotted an article over at Phys.Org about how presenters at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society discussed a special class of electronic devices — ones that dissolve after a given amount of…

Whether it’s due to environmental changes, the effects of aging, a clumsy character played by Peter Sellers or a conspiratorial planned obsolescence, stuff eventually breaks. Most of the time, the only recourse we have is to call up someone to…

Out of all the success stories spawned by Kickstarter, the Pebble Watch might be the most dramatic. The campaign launched in 2012 with a goal of $100,000. By the time the campaign ended on May 18, 2012, the project had…