Most Hackaday readers are no doubt familiar with the Faraday cage, at least in name, and nearly everyone owns one: if you’ve ever stood watching a bag of popcorn slowly revolve inside of a microwave, ...

What's cooking? A microwave oven is a Faraday cage Is the Faraday cage in your lab less effective than you think? A new study by applied mathematicians at the University of Oxford suggests that the ...

While studying neuropsychology at Wesleyan University, Jordan Engel once covered the inside of a lab in screen doors to protect the lab’s sensitive equipment. “We had to turn the labs into Faraday ...

An electric charge (like a proton) creates an electric field in the region around it. This field points away from positive charges and decreases in strength as it gets farther away from the charge.

Shielding is crucial for all manner of electronic devices. Whether you want to keep power supply noise out of an audio amplifier, or protect ICBMs against an electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear ...

Some of the internet’s best moments arrive unannounced in the form of um, duh moments — it’s one of the 21st century’s best-selling brands of humor. This week’s iteration comes in the form of Amazon ...

Thanksgiving is two days from today. Do you dread that people at the table will be talking to texting during the meal? The solution should be easy: tell everyone to turn off cell phones. Will everyone ...

Despite the many tools developed to help us down our phones while driving -- from the simple Bluetooth headset to apps that automatically reply to texts-- it appears we just can't stop fiddling with ...

Distracted driving killed almost 3,500 in the United States in 2015. We know it's dangerous, and yet for many of us the urge to look at our phones when we're behind the wheel is too great. To that end ...

Say you wanted to protect your Wi-Fi network from surrounding buildings. The most obvious way to do this would be to secure the devices on your network using the wireless security protocol of choice.