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food

Smallest Ramen Bowl in the World

According to legend, University of Tokyo professor Masayuki Nakao was bitten by a radioactive ramen bowl when he was a kid, which gave him the ability to spit 1-micron-wide bowls made out of silicon—full of dozens of 20-nanometer-think carbon noodles floating in an ethanol soup—at supersonic speeds. Or maybe he did this one with a metal particle beam to demo a new circuit manufacturig technology using carbon nanotubes. Whatever it is, they are low on sodium: two molecules per serving. [Pink Tentacle]

9:30 AM on Thu May 29 2008
By jesusdiaz
4,155 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: @kaikai34: is... is that a ... a compliment? when referring to a food product? Gee, I would kind of think... golly, you guys and your hip slang... wow. more »

that's pretty dark

Darkest Material Ever Is Almost Blacker Than Karl Rove's Soul

Is there anything you can't do with the wonderful stuff that is nanotubes? A scientist at Rice University has created the world's darkest material ever with pure carbon nanotubes, reflecting only .045 percent of all light shined on it. To put that in perspective, it's 100 times darker than the paint on a black Corvette, or roughly 27 percent as dark as the viscous substance running through Karl Rove's veins. But this stuff is useful, since its ridiculous light absorption would be great for solar panels. [Houston Chronicle via MAKE]

8:35 AM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By matt buchanan
11,348 views, 84 comments

Latest by puttputt: I read this because it puts down Carl Rove. more »

gadgets

Carbon Butterfly Gallery: RC Plane Lighter Than a Sheet of Paper

The Carbon Fiber Butterfly is the world's lightest RC Plane. Between its transparent plastic wings, the carbon fiber skeleton, the prop, controller chip, drivetrain and rudder, it weighs 3.6 grams. That's less than a sheet of paper. More »

9:34 PM on Tue Apr 10 2007
By Brian Lam
4,075 views, 32 comments

gadgets

Plantraco's Carbon Butterfly Remote Control Plane

At 3.6 grams, this Carbon Butterfly is the lightest RC plane in the world. And because it's made out of Carbon Fiber, it's got the strength of steel but the flexibility of a 14-year-old gymnast. More »

7:45 PM on Thu Sep 21 2006
By Jason Chen
3,657 views, 8 comments

portable media

Woot Deal: Rio 5GB Player

Act fast, because this deal will probably go fast. I had a Rio Carbon back in the day—a great little MP3 player—and this one even comes with Zcyber i3 portable speakers... all for $99. You can't even get a 5GB flash drive for $99. More »

11:56 AM on Thu Jun 1 2006
By johnb
159 views, 11 comments

gadgets

Parlee Z3S1 Custom Bike Makes Others Look Like Lead Balloons

If you thought that Mercedes bicycle we showed you yesterday was light, take a look at the Parlee Z3Sl Custom, weighing 10.86 lb. It's so light, its weight is expressed in grams; this one is 4929g. Made in the great U. S. of A., the 950-gram carbon frame alone costs $4700. More »

8:44 AM on Fri Apr 7 2006
By Charlie White
2,464 views, 20 comments

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Mercedes-Benz Carbon Bike

This sexy, sexy beast is the Carbon Bike from Mercedes-Benz Accessories GmbH, the star of their 2006 Bike Collection. While this is their very first racing bike, the use of carbon fiber in vehicle shells isn't new to Mercedes-Benz—the McLaren Mercedes F1 cars of Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya heavily incorporate it, and their SLR McLaren is the world's first production car with a body shell made entirely of it. The Carbon Bike weighs in at an amazingly light 8.3 kilograms, comes with components from famed Japanese manufacturer Shimano, a €2990/$3665 pricetag and in a limited edition of 1999. More »

12:04 PM on Thu Apr 6 2006
By gizmodo.com
6,727 views, 12 comments

Latest by tr: why didn't they engineer they're own components??? because they didn't make the bike! seriously, are you blind to see that this is just some marketing/branding thing? benz has another manufacturer make the bike, benz slaps on it's more »