<![CDATA[Gizmodo: factory tour]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: factory tour]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/factorytour http://gizmodo.com/tag/factorytour <![CDATA[This is How Your Plastic Objects Are Made]]> Curious as to how all those plastic cups, trash cans and containers you get at Ikea are made? Random Good Stuff takes a tour of the Koziol plastics factory in Germany, where many of those household items are designed.

The process is the same as the one used in the Lego factory, but instead of Lego, these guys make things you touch pretty much all throughout your day. [RGS]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5309557&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Frozen Pizzas Are Made (Singularity and One Badass Sauce Gun)]]> The BBC has a fantastic, 3-minute clip touring a frozen pizza factory that manufactures 2 million pizzas a week. There's something about precision, large-scale automation, even when the technology isn't necessary cutting edge, that's even more telling of our technological place in the world than sleek touchscreen phones and GPS navigators. Notice the eerie lack of humans, the cold airshot of sauce onto crust and the phallic towers of pepperoni being diced to scraps by machines. Has Man sold his soul to the robots so soon? And just for some crappy frozen pizzas? [BBC via MAKE]

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