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  • Brown; color is weird
  • Cassette adapters are remarkably simple
  • Switches are Clicky; Here's Why
  • Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?
  • Fans; High is next to Off on purpose
  • Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X
  • The Antique Toaster that's Better than Yours
  • Space Heater Nonsense
  • Retroreflectors; they're everywhere, and they cheat physics (sort of)
  • Fiber vs. Copper; What do we really need?
  • The US electrical system is not 120V
  • The Weird World in RGB
  • The VHS cassette was more clever than Beta
  • Laptop Docks! They're pretty neat!
  • The VFD that isn't
  • The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
  • Teleprompters are clever, simple, and also pretty neat
  • The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!
  • The Odd History of the SD Logo
  • The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
  • Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light
  • How to design an actually good toaster with lessons from the 1940's
  • The Selection Accumulator; a Jukebox's Brain
  • The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
  • Race to the finish; RCA's final gamble (CED Part 5)
  • The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR
  • The Story of Disney's PeopleMover in Texas
  • Exploring the good ol' Cassette Tape
  • LED bulbs that flicker, and CFLs that almost never did
  • Personal "air conditioners" aren't what they seem
  • RCA's CED failed; their history can tell us why (Pt. 3)
  • Holograms, Lasers & Boredom; the CED's march towards eventual invention
  • LCCS: The LCD / CRT Hybrid from JVC
  • LED color experiments 2019; Beyond the Sharpie
  • The Electromagnet in Your Toaster
  • Old-fashioned rice cookers are extremely clever
  • Coffee Percolators: An Explanation and Roast
  • Electric car chargers aren't chargers at all – EVSE Explained
  • GE's bizarre early attempt at a CFL
  • What is Dolby Noise Reduction? Dolby's Humble Beginning
  • The Impact Sprinkler - more clever than it seems!
  • Film: the reason some of the past was in HD
  • Stupid Design--The Needlessly Useless Webcam Activity Light
  • The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog (it's a little weird)
  • The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)
  • What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?
  • The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)
  • The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
  • LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
  • DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?

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