Tiny laptops have always been devices that promise so much, yet fail somehow to deliver. From the Atari Portfolio palmtops through to the recent crop of netbooks they have been either eye ...

Among old CPUs, the 6809 never got as much attention as some of its cousins. The Radio Shack CoCo used it and so did a construction article in Wireless World Magazine. Now [Dave] has reconstructed ...

If you have an old Android tablet lying around that you're not sure what to do with, why not use it as a second display for your PC? Android, being an open platform, lets you do quite a lot with ...

I own a torridly underpowered Android tablet from the good old days of 2019. Despite its waning age and paltry processing speed, I still tote it daily as a reading slate. However, I recently gave ...

A personal computer in the form of a rectangular slate. A tablet computer or simply "tablet" offers the same functions as a desktop or laptop computer with the advantage of ultimate portability.

That old smartphone or tablet you have knocking about the house is more useful than you might think: just because it's no longer the latest and greatest model in existence doesn't mean it can't ...

A CPU might only seem useful for its intended purpose, but its small size and distinctive appearance could make it a futuristic-looking keychain. Take the old CPU from your computer, remove any ...

A graphics drawing tablet used for sketching new images or tracing old ones. Also called a "graphics tablet," the user contacts the surface of the device with a wired or wireless pen or puck.