While old houses are often home to hauntings in horror games, old technology holds just as much potential to unnerve. From the eerie camera of Fatal Frame to the clacking typewriter you use to save in ...

A jet plane is landing in my laundry. Or taking off, so loud is the noise coming from my least favourite room in the house. It's my 13-year old front loader washing machine that has accompanied me ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But what a lot of people forget to consider are the actual machines. While your Nespresso machine should last you anywhere from ...

Al and I were talking about the IBM 9020 FAA Air Traffic Control computer system on the podcast. It’s a strange machine, made up of a bunch of IBM System 360 mainframes connected together to a common ...

When Cyclone Pam lashed Vanuatu two years ago, aid to the island nation came in all shapes and sizes: food, tents, clothes, and cash. But Caroline Mason saw the need for quilts. "I started seeing it ...

Appliances built before the 1980s were often designed for decades of use rather than a few years of service Repair shops for vacuums, radios, and small appliances were once common businesses, not a ...