Certain inventions have dramatically transformed the way we live, communicate, and understand the world. Some groundbreaking objects sparked revolutions in technology, healthcare, and transportation, ...

The 1980s are forever immortalized in popular culture as an era of primitive digitization, with technological revolutions spanning everything from the artificial heart to the Space Shuttle. The ...

From smart egg trays to Bluetooth toasters, explore 18 inventions from the last decade that prove some tech is just a bit too ...

In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed what was known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. The goal of the legislation was to create an agency ...

From the Publisher: Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the ...

With almost half a century separating the present from the 1980s, it's easy to start thinking of the era of big hair and emerging tech as the distant past. However, it's worth noting that much of the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You might think that technology from over 50 years ago was all very mundane, and there's truth to that, at least compared to the most exciting ...

While working as an engineer at Tesla, Niccolo Cymbalist never planned to start a business. But he’d been considering an idea for new technology—an autonomous, wind-powered cargo ship. Then, while on ...

Technology trends 2026point toward a major shift in how humans interact with systems, data, and machines. Automation is moving beyond simple task execution, with intelligent software agents beginning ...

The USPTO has issued an internal memorandum that may make it easier to patent software, in particular AI-related software inventions. In recent years, the USPTO has found certain software inventions ...