Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific Northwest, but has long called Los Angeles home. He's had a lifelong obsession with cars and motorcycles (both old and new). It's time to fire ...

With this simple sentence, the Turbo-Encabulator was born. For a number of years now work has been proceeding in order to bring to perfection the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not ...

Confession: We here at Fast Company have been watching CES like hawks for a new, smaller device that provides inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors but would also be capable ...

What it’s about: Just your typical collection of hydrocoptic marzlevanes fitted to an ambifacient lunar waneshaft. In 1944, British grad student John Hellins Quick wrote of a nonexistent machine in ...

Someone emailed me a link to Rockwell Automation's spoof of several years ago wherein they created a short video for their new "retro turboencabulator." I had forgotten about this thing. It is still ...

My ham radio buddy Rob sent this YouTube video that is a great satire of technical doublespeak. If you want to know how we sound to our bosses and spouses and kids, well here it is. Good thing Early ...

Engineers last week were avidly reading a pamphlet published by Arthur D. Little, Inc., a venerable Cambridge, Mass, chemical and engineering research firm. Title: The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry.

He works in mysterious ways.

A COUPLE of weeks ago, I stumbled across a strange video on YouTube called “SANS ICS HyperEncabulator”. In it, a suave man in a suit explained this new “cybersecurity” machine, gesturing at an ...

Many project failures can be traced to a vendor making outlandish claims which the customer accepts hook, line, and sinker. In these situations hope, greed, fear, inexperience, and denial come ...