This past July, I wrote a post titled "Technology needs to be more than a 'thread.'" The post generated a fair amount of discussion. I have read everyone’s comments, seen a few tweets, and even ...

This is not an LED display, it’s a thread display. The hardware artists over at Breakfast, a Brooklyn based rapid product and prototype company, built this color display that uses spools of thread for ...

The Wordle word of the day on December 24 was spool, which feels almost deliberately understated for a date otherwise obsessed with excess, anticipation and noise. It is not festive. It does not ...