Associate Editor Nate Ralph is an aspiring wordsmith, covering mobile software and hardware for CNET Reviews. His hobbies include dismantling gadgets, waxing poetic about obscure ASCII games, and ...

I went to a sporting event recently where I received an old school Ticketmaster ticket. You know the ones I’m talking about. They’re 5.5 inches by 2 inches, made of some sort of thin cardboard or ...