[Kevin Darrah] recently went out to dinner at a restaurant that was using some cheap LED candles (yuck) instead of the real thing. And in the true spirit of a hacker, he started to notice the patterns ...

If you’ve visited Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion in recent years, you might have noticed the flickering candles and wondered about the risk of open flames in such a setting. That effect, like so much at ...

Candle clocks were once an easy way to build a clock without using complex mechanical devices: just observe how quickly a thin candle burns down, mark an identical candle with periodic gradations, and ...