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We Went to the Vintage Computer Festival — Here’s What We Found

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Just spent the weekend at Vintage Computer Festival West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View! This place is a time machine: PDP-1 and IBM 1401 demos, giant Macintosh replica, Steve Jobs’ soldering station, rare Apple garage photos, Zip drives, Sound Blaster merch, and a treasure trove of retro gaming from Wolfenstein to ZX Spectrum. Live talks, a portable PC collection, and a private collector’s full laptop history—five years in the making. If you love tech nostalgia, this is the place to be. See you next year! ๐Ÿ“น Watch the full video → #VCFWest2026 #VintageComputing #RetroTech #ComputingHistory

Interoperability Hell: Why Your Smart Devices Still Won't Talk to Each Other

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You replaced your Wi-Fi router on a Saturday morning. By the afternoon, the hallway lights had stopped answering, the robot vacuum was "offline", and nine smart plugs were waiting in an app you deleted two phones ago, under an account you don't remember creating. Nothing was broken. Every device still worked exactly as manufactured. They just no longer agreed on who was in charge or which cloud they answered to. That's interoperability hell — and in 2026, three years after Matter promised to fix it, your devices still talk to their manufacturers far more fluently than they talk to each other. ๐Ÿงฉ The Short Version The maze accreted one reasonable decision at a time: Zigbee and Z-Wave meshes that never spoke to each other, then a decade of Wi-Fi gadgets that each shipped with their own app, cloud and account. The radios were never the hard part — the fragmentation lives in data models and accounts . The walled gardens — Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home — imposed ord...

We Tested a Video Game You Can Smell, a Beer-Keg Rocket and Real BattleBots — Open Sauce 2026 Part 3

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Just dropped Part 3 of Open Sauce 2026 recap from San Mateo! ๐Ÿš€ Beer keg liquid-fuel rocket, a scent-releasing game controller, a real BattleBots arena from Las Vegas, and a max-efficiency Guitar Hero AI. Also Duck Hunt on a CRT, a nine-month Apex Havoc replica, plus Robocop-level robotics, indie games, and more. Fewer exhibitors than 2025, but our three favorites are ๐Ÿ”ฅ Stay tuned for Part 3 highlights and links to Part 1 & 2! ๐Ÿ“น Watch the full video → #OpenSauce2026 #IoTForge #BattleBots #LiquidFuelRocket

6G and IoT: What the Wireless Future Looks Like After 5G

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Every ten years, almost to the year, mobile networking reinvents itself. Voice in the eighties, text in the nineties, data at the millennium, smartphones around 2010, and 5G in 2019. The cadence makes the next date easy to predict: 6G, around 2030. But 6G isn't shaping up to be a faster pipe. The framework that defines it — the ITU's IMT-2030, adopted in November 2023 — is less about speed and more about the network learning to perceive : sensing objects that carry no radio, powering tags that carry no battery, covering the planet from orbit. The generations so far competed on connecting things. 6G is the first that wants to notice them. ๐Ÿ”ฎ The Short Version Six usage scenarios define 6G — three stretched from 5G (broadband, low latency, massive IoT) and three genuinely new: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) — the network doubles as a distributed radar, reading its own reflections. Presence, falls, drones, forklifts — detected with no sensor deployed. Ubiquito...

CES 2026, Final Day — We Survived the Biggest Hall Last

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CES 2026 final day was insane! The biggest hall revealed mega reveals from Razer, ASUS, Intel, Amazon, Samsung and more. Pet tech overload, AI health cameras, on-device AI, new Ring Elite, Project Ava and Motoko, 480Hz dual-screen laptops, 6-axis wow moments, and a dramatically powerful on-site showcase. We did it, survived the complete halls and captured every highlight. Catch the full walk-throughs, robot rookies, smart home dreams, and game-changing AI in action. Subscribe for the final wrap and all post-show deep dives from IoT Forge. ๐Ÿ“น Watch the full video → #CES2026 #FinalDayWalkthrough #SmartHomeTech #PetTechAI

Sensors 101: The Eyes and Ears of Every Connected Device

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Hold your phone perfectly still. Even doing nothing, it knows which way up it is, how bright the room is, how close your face is, and what the air pressure is doing — a dozen tiny devices measuring the physical world thousands of times a second. Every connected device starts exactly there. Strip away the cloud, the dashboards, the machine learning: IoT makes one simple promise — something, somewhere, is measuring something real. Take the sensors away and the Internet of Things is just the Internet. Yet sensors are the part every tutorial sprints past. "Wire the DHT22 to pin 4" — with no word on what the thing actually is, why its readings wobble, or why two identical modules disagree by two degrees. This is Sensors 101: what they are, how they talk, which families matter, and what the datasheet really means. ๐Ÿ‘️ The Short Version A sensor is a transducer — it converts physics (heat, light, motion, chemistry) into an electrical signal. The mental model that actually works...

We Test Drove a Tesla, a $106K Wagoneer & an Electric Hot Rod — Demo Days Festival 2026

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Just rode through Demo Days Festival at Alameda Point and wow—hundreds of powertrains, real test drives, no pushy salespeople, and a robotics/AI crossover I didn’t know to expect! Jeep Grand Wagoneer, a 0-60 Cybertruck benchmark, full self-driving Model 3, an electric 1932 hot rod, custom go-karts, Toborlife AI robots, robotaxi demos, FPV drone racing, e-bikes, kids zone, and more. If you love cars meets cutting-edge tech, this is the event to bookmark. Demo Days travels across the US—check if it’s coming to your city! ๐Ÿ“น Watch the full video → #DemoDaysFestival #ElectricVehicles #TeslaCybertruck #JeepWagoneer #EVConversion #HumanoidRobots #RoboTaxi #FPVDrone #ElectricHotRod #AutotechShow #AlamedaPoint #BayAreaTech #EVTestDrive #AutomotiveInnovation #IoTForge