All it takes is one bad bulb to keep all of the other Christmas lights from lighting up. The trouble is, how do you find that one bad bulb? This gadget is supposed to help you find it. A bad bulb ...

What a dim bulb of an idea. I’m talking about the “Dark Skies Protection Act,” which is being pitched by Democratic Assemblywoman Deborah Glick of Lower Manhattan. Under the bill, New York City ...

Too much burning of electric lights in Moscow homes was the subject of a brusque decree last week. Without explanation the Electric Service Bureau of the Moscow Soviet ordered citizens to reduce ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

If someone said a lightbulb has been glowing for over a century, it might sound unbelievable. Yet inside a fire station in Livermore, California, there’s one that has done exactly that. The small, dim ...

I have come to the realization that I do not have the time nor patience for all the high-tech innovations designed to make my life more marvelous. I have all the marvelous I can handle right now. This ...

The beauty of Super Bowl week, from an NFL marketing perspective, is that so many mish-mashy, dim-bulb storylines are wafting in the air that sometimes the real stuff ends up getting lost. Case in ...

“Bad Boys” was released so long ago—1995—that Martin Lawrence got top billing over Will Smith, no one had heard of its rookie director (Michael Bay), and a character expressed bafflement about the ...

If you’re testing old stereo equipment, a dim bulb tester can really come in handy. It’s not for testing bulbs, though, it’s a tester that uses a dim bulb to test other things. [Nicholas Morganti] ...