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more about #manufacturing BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: If you come in just to 'window shop' - they have a little place in the back for your kind. more » Gordonium: Wow. Is this China rubbing dirt in our faces while we're down? more » SigmundTheSeaMonster: Transmogrifier!!!! more » Skid-Vicious: I can do the same with my arc welder. more » blindeye: But will this also create grain flow in the metal? Important airplane parts are usually made by forging the metal to increase strength. If this method... more » Pope John Peeps II: Hey ho. All the Gizmodo weirdos who continually post "Eff incompetent NASA, private enterprise rules! Private enterprise forever". Well, I guess you'v... more » superberg: Holy crap. Are we on the cusp of The Diamond Age? more » Samuel James Reha: So, can the laser be mounted on a computer who is then programmed to build a new, more efficient laser computer building laser computer? Now that's a ... more » Anybody: There isn't anything that can't be made better with lasers more » appletoad: is running iPhone OS 4.0 beta: I love how the first thing they made with it is a butt plug. more » icelight: Clearly is article has to be fake, because everyone knows that NASA never produces anything useful, and only exists to waste money. /bitter, bitter s... more » dingus: Sounds fun. Just watch out for those x-rays. more » stevegiblin: NASA: 1 People-that-bitch-about-NASA: 0 more » fullyrandomtandem: they should make the 80gb $300 and the 160gb $350 more » GlenTen: I've bought the PS1, the PS2 twice, but not the PS3. The price is the only reason. There's a half dozen exclusive games for it that I really want... more » bosskev: You're saying that the actual cost to Sony at launch in late 2006 was $800? Yet I bought my original 60GB PS3 at launch for $600 through Amazon? Now ... more » Joaquin: Seems the moment to buy my new PS3 is finally coming... more » bucklefilledbird: unless they can also make it 70% quieter and run 70% cooler I'm still 100% not buying one. more » ValerioB: so how much SHOULD it be retailing for now? more » Koztah: Okay. So if the iPhone costs 180$ to make, and sells (contractless) for 600-700$ directly from a service provider. Wouldn't Apple make an incredible f... more » -
#china
Foxconn to Open 10,000 Retail Stores in China
Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer who assembles a sizable percentage of our consumer electronics, is planning to open a boatload of retail stores in China, where they'll sell the smorgasbord of gear that they assemble. More » -
#manufacturing
NASA Can Now Create Objects Using Electron Beams
Instead of using traditional 3D manufacturing, NASA has developed an electron beam fabrication system capable of creating any object. And hey, if it uses electron beams that means it's awesome, no matter what. More » -
#ps3
PS3 Is Now 70 Percent Cheaper To Make, Could Mean Price Cuts
During a Sony conference call, corporate CEO Nobuyuki Oneda revealed that the PS3 is roughly 70% cheaper to make than it was at launch. Estimates would put that figure at around $240—down from $800. More » -
#iphone3gs
iSuppli: The iPhone 3GS Costs $178.96 To Build; $4 More Than Previous Model
iSuppli's latest teardown has revealed that the BOM and manufacturing cost of the iPhone 3GS comes to $178.96. That's a little over $4 more than the previous iPhone at release last year and about $8 more than the Palm Pre. More » -
#manufacturing
iSuppli: The Kindle 2 Costs $185.49 to Build
According to an iSuppli teardown, the Kindle 2 costs $185 to build—or about half the device's $360 sticker price. That's $176.83 in parts, $8.66 in construction costs. Here's the major component breakdown: More » -
#manufacturing
What the 27 Cellphones Produced Per Second Looks Like
We're inundated with stats about everything from babies dying to pounds of pizza eaten, but what does all that stuff actually look like? More » -
#factorytour
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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#iphone
Apple To Crank Out 45 Million iPhone 3Gs Over the Next 12 Months
Business Week is citing an internal Apple source today who is hinting at the company's upcoming manufacturing plans for the 3G, and they're huge—between 40 and 45 million phones by this time next year kind of huge. The numbers are necessary, obviously, to cover for the impending Best Buy availability and the additional 20 countries that make up the second phase of the international launch starting today (with over 70 launches eventually, China rumored to be among them). But, wow. How about some perspective? More » -
#gadgets
A Closer Look Into the Chinese Cities That Make Our Bra Clasps, Plastic Bags and Other Everyday Gadgets
National Geographic has a fantastic story about the "instant cities" in China that have been popping up in response to the tremendous manufacturing boom in the last few decades. These cities are home to manufacturers who specialize in one niche product—such as bra rings, bra straps, plastic bags, or blue jeans—and sell them to the rest of the world. More » -
#rumor
Is Sony In Negotiations to Sell Cell Manufacturing Plants?
Sources say Sony's thinking about selling off their Cell CPU manufacturing plants, as evidenced by their recent canoodling with Toshiba. These plants would be the same ones where Sony currently produces the processos used in the PS3—you know, the Cell processors. If true, this sale would help Sony free up $860 million in free cash and allow them to focus their efforts on other parts of the company like their digital camera and HDTV divisions where they're not doing so poorly. [Reuters] -
#formatwar
State of Blu-ray: Not So Good?
According to the HD DVD fan-site campaignhd, the state of Blu-ray (the format in general) is anything but good. Keep in mind that this is an HD DVD site—which may or may not be sponsored by the HD DVD camp—so their complaints might be a little "off." However, they do provide ample links for the statements they make, which makes us take pause and wonder if Blu-ray really is this deep in shit. More »
