I recently came across a disturbing piece of news about a recall of Ryobi pressurized washers on FOX Business (Figure 1). I got some pictures from there and elsewhere, which, with a little ...

When we remove the enclosure of modern electronics, we see a lot of little silvery cylinders wrapped with heat shrink plastic. These aluminum electrolytic capacitors are common residents on circuit ...

I'm currently wading through nearly a month's worth of email and RSS feed backlog, before the next deadline bag o'bricks hits, and came across this Slashdot head-scratcher. Remember the leaky, ...