Confession: We here at Fast Company have been watching CES like hawks for a new, smaller device that provides inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors but would also be capable ...

Many project failures can be traced to a vendor making outlandish claims which the customer accepts hook, line, and sinker. In these situations hope, greed, fear, inexperience, and denial come ...

Someone emailed me a link to Rockwell Automation's spoof of several years ago wherein they created a short video for their new "retro turboencabulator." I had forgotten about this thing. It is still ...

A COUPLE of weeks ago, I stumbled across a strange video on YouTube called “SANS ICS HyperEncabulator”. In it, a suave man in a suit explained this new “cybersecurity” machine, gesturing at an ...

My ham radio buddy Rob sent this YouTube video that is a great satire of technical doublespeak. If you want to know how we sound to our bosses and spouses and kids, well here it is. Good thing Early ...

Engineers last week were avidly reading a pamphlet published by Arthur D. Little, Inc., a venerable Cambridge, Mass, chemical and engineering research firm. Title: The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry.