Nowadays we take for granted the ability to just turn on our car radio when we want news, music, or entertainment while traveling about. Such convenience was not always the case. Prior to the 1930s, ...

The very first cellular telephone call took place 50 years ago this week, Chicago. And though it happened on a street in New York City, the DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) prototype was ...

Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

In contrast to most modern builds we see on Hackaday, vintage radios are fairly simple – mainly turret-board builds with a transformer, resistors, capacitors, coil and tubes. The main issues in any ...

It was called the “Golden Age of Radio” in the 1940s and 1950s. Although thoughts recall the radio programing of the day when we hear the term, the equipment itself was also “golden,” so to speak.

THIS rare throwback to the 1960s could be yours for a staggering £600,000 as a sleek vintage Aston Martin goes on sale. The highly coveted 1965 DB Short-Chassis Volante is one of just 37 examples ever ...

There is now organized resistance against the modern smartphone. And it appears to be quite lucrative. A website called Vintage Mobile offers a wide array of defiantly dumb phones from the era when ...