Office equipment

An image of the Monroe PC-1421 with its cover removed.

Here’s the impossibly complicated way calculators used to look

Technology

Today they’re sleek plastic slabs or just apps on a smartphone, but calculators were once incredibly complex collections of machinery jammed into tiny boxes. Mark Glusker is fascinated by the old machines, and invited photographer Kevin Twomey to capture his collection.

Bioengineers create life-like human ear with 3-D printer

Environment

Listeners Respond: What Sounds Are Going Extinct?

The World

Our Next Redesign: You Decide

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Business Note/Paper Wizard

The World

Victorian Electronica

Arts, Culture & Media

Musician and producer Daedelus creates music from orchestral samples, funky breakbeats, and anything else that strikes his fancy – including an inkjet printer. It sounds au courant, but his primary inspiration is England’s Victorian era. Produced by Studio 360’s Derek John.