The rebirth of the HP-12C: How one man reimagined a calculator from 1981

For me, the story started in 1982 with a secret initiation ceremony. I was taken to the personnel director’s office and handed a…

Death and the internet: How Facebook and Twitter are shaping the dead

From Silent Hill to Alien: Isolation — What makes a horror game scary?

Games have a seemingly…

Soma, Bioshock and horror: how games tap into our internal fears

Last week, we explored the roles…

Are AI and “deep learning” the future of, well, everything?

Davey Winder explores machine intelligence

Minecraft sonnets: How poetry and gaming are joining forces

Thomas McMullen

Desire Machines: How wearables like the Apple Watch tap into the language of fashion and sex