In 2015, a mechanical engineer decided to use a two-week hiatus before a new job to re-examine his card collection. Sorting through his collectibles took longer than expected — 24 hours spread over ...

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Learn about Nohtal Partansky, an aerospace engineer who moved into automating cannabis manufacturing by way of inventing a robotic card sorting machine. Here is Part 1 of his unique journey. The ...

I first saw Square's product when Gizmodo's Mat Honan whipped one out at a dinner in San Francisco to help us split a check. Here's how it worked: he ran my credit card through a tiny plastic ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. In 2015, a mechanical engineer decided to use a two-week hiatus before a new job to re-examine his card collection. Sorting through ...