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If you've ever bought a can of compressed air to clean your computer or keyboard, you may have noticed the lengthy list of safety warnings on the back. That alarmist language isn't for nothing, ...

Technology makes our lives easier, but it can be easy for dust, hair, and other detritus to get lodged in your equipment causing malfunctions. Additionally, if you have knick-knacks, models, or action ...

A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design ...

In this video, we explore the effects of compressed air by conducting several experiments with 8 cans of canned duster. We attempt to freeze a lock, hair, soda, and a banana, and cut one can to ...

"An air compressor can be used for so many different domestic projects, even though so many people mistake them for something that only commercial areas need," said Andy King, founder and managing ...

My love affair with compressed air started a number of years ago when I got an entry level oil-less air compressor for Christmas. Looking like a bloated red fire hydrant lying on its side, it made a ...

We earn commissions from purchases you make using links in our articles. Learn more. Whether it's for painting, dusting, inflating, or air tools, sometimes there's no substitute for an air compressor.

Decarbonizing the world's electricity grids won't be an easy task, but it is a necessary one if we're going to mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change. Since wind and solar power are ...

HOT ROD Magazine has done several stories and tests on compressed-air supercharging, and we are bringing this story, which was posted in 2014, back to the surface because the concept has a renewed ...

Compressed air isn’t really a practical form of energy storage for headline uses like transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton] is plenty experienced ...