Q: I would like a battery-powered FM transistor radio for my bathroom counter. I had one with decent sound but it quit working, and the ones I have tried since all have sounded tinny. It doesn't need ...

Today pocket transistor radios manufactured in the 1950s are very collectable. Some models are highly sought after by collectors and regularly sell for hundreds of dollars. It is not uncommon to find ...

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from my Aunt Ina when I was about seven. I used to think I was ten, but the songs from 1973 would be wrong: I distinctly remember ...

In a recent Boston Globe Tech Lab column, Hiawatha Bray argues that activating FM chips in smartphones is practical and important. During a recent trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, “an ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: October 18th, 1954, 61 years ago today ... the day Dick Tracy's wristwatch radio came its closest yet to reality. For that was the day Texas ...

Long before podcasts, smartphones, social media, gossip blogs and on-demand news, the portable radio set was the world’s most trusted companion. It was the device that sat on kitchen shelves, ...

The VHF super regenerative receiver has been trimmed down to a single transistor without compromising its tremendous sensitivity and selectivity while maintaining the same clear audio. The original ...

Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ones. But some lucky kids got the Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit on ...

Everyone carries the Internet in their pocket, yet radio and television remain the primary way people get information in an emergency. So when a disaster knocks out power and takes down cell service-- ...