Andrew Carol, an engineer at Apple, has rebuilt a model of the ancient Antikythera Mechanism entirely out of Lego blocks. Watch this amazing 3-minute video: A fuller story behind all this is here. I ...

Whenever I tried to make large mechanisms like that (but way less complex) out of technical Lego when I was younger, I always found that the twisting tended to make the gears push apart, jamming their ...

Welcome, visitors from StumbleUpon! Like what you see here? Check out PCWorld’s GeekTech blog for more hacks and DIY tech, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. 2000 years ago the Greeks built a device ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device that is sometimes called the world's oldest computer for its ability to perform astronomical calculations. Discovered by sponge divers off ...