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OCZ Firmware Update Fixes “Dirty” SSDs In Its Spare Time

Modern SSDs might not “fragment” in the same way your old 9GB FAT32 drive did, but they’ve got their own, possibly worse problems. OCZ, along with Indilinx, say they’ve got a “garbage collection” firmware that’ll clear things right up. https://gizmodo.com/intel-ssds-may-suffer-from-irreparable-fragmentation-sl-5157015 Here’s how it works, in terms that you may or may not understand: The flash…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 10

This Is Why You Need To Know When To Say When

Hey, I’m all for a night out drinking now and then, but not to the point where I’m crawling into industrial garbage bins to sleep one off. You might not wake up when it’s crunch time. Case in point—math teacher and rugby coach Scott Williams was recently crushed to death when he fell asleep in…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Jul 15

Sub-Zero Garbage Can Keeps Your Trash Nice and Frosty

Organic garbage, like banana peels and coffee grounds, stink. Sitting in your garbage can all day at room temperature guarantees that your place will smell like a dump. Not if it’s frozen, however. The Minus Frozen Garbage Container is a concept device designed to keep the sink down by holding your garbage at below-freezing temperatures.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 31

This Trash Collecting Robot Isn’t Quite Earth’s Lovable Savior, but Close

The problem with distant glimpses of the future is that getting there takes some time. Such is the case with the TCR-2009 Trash Collecting Robot, which is a neat, but primitive robot garbage man. Created by three Malaysian university students, there’s currently only photos available of the TCR, so how well this thing actually functions…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 6

All-In-One Recycling Center Puts Everything in its Right Place

For those out there who obsess about keeping the recycling separate from the normal trash, your chariot has arrived. The All-In-One recycling center has an 8-gallon bin for cans and bottles and a 5-gallon bin for newspaper and junkmail. There’s a foot-activated can crusher that automatically drops the compressed rubbish into the bin, and a…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 10

What is the Coolest Gadget You Have Ever Found on the Sidewalk?

The guys at Objectified snapped this photo of an old stereo system lying on the sidewalk. This inspired the question “what is the most interesting gadget you have ever found on the sidewalk?” If you have ever lived in an urban environment, chances are you see some pretty interesting stuff just sitting there waiting to…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Jan 23

Build Your Own Mr. Fusion and Gasify Your Car With Garbage

Ever since Doc Brown added a Mr. Fusion to the Delorean, many of us have longed to fuel our car with banana peels and beer. Now you can, thanks to the magic of gasification. Gasification is the use of heat to transform solid biomass, or other carbonaceous solids, into a synthetic “natural gas like” flammable…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jan 5

Manson Is A Method Actor, Of Sorts

Wondering what gives Shirley Manson the experience to be able to pull off playing a hard-ass CEO in the new season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Apparently, very tenuous logic, according to the former lead singer of Garbage: “You know, she’s the CEO of a corporation that develops technology… As a musician, we’re dealing…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 29

Biggest garbage dump: Oceans or Space?

People are good at spreading trash around the globe, and even our vast oceans are starting to fill up with (mostly plastic) refuse. Witness the North Pacific subtropical gyre, a floating trashcan the size of Texas. But outer space is closing the gap, according to a recent article in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung…

io9 Michael Reilly Apr 21

Superbugs to Make Power from Poo

Quick intro to the hydrogen-economy paradox: The stuff could save our oil-addled asses, but curses! We have to burn oil to make the stuff. Enter researchers from Penn State, who have announced that they can use specially bred bacteria to make the most plentiful element in the universe from… Well, let’s allow FOXNews to serve…

io9 Matthew DeBord Nov 16

This Eco-Friendly Oven Stinks (Because It Runs On Garbage)

In the Kenyan slum of Kibera, outside of Nairobi, an oven fueled by garbage is now in testing. At its heart is a superheated steel plate that vaporizes drops of water. The oxygen released burns discarded sump oil from vehicles, reaching even higher temperatures up to 930° Fahrenheit. Garbage is then used to maintain the…

Tech News Benny Goldman Nov 2

R2D2 Trash Can Gladly Accepts Your Garbage

R2D2 sold out. Not only was his name and likeness used in a projector (that I had to walk really far to get pictures of at CES, thank you very much) and a Pepsi dispenser, but now he’s whoring himself out as a garbage can. For shame. The lid opens by stomping on his middle…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Feb 22

Purdue University Develops Mr.Fusion, Finally

A team of scientists and researchers at Purdue have developed a fully functional Mr. Fusion. (For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, go rent Back to the Future II asap.) This tactical biorefinery can munch up food, paper and plastic garbage and turn it into energy. This machine was commissioned for the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Feb 5

OCZ Firmware Update Fixes “Dirty” SSDs In Its Spare Time

This Is Why You Need To Know When To Say When

Sub-Zero Garbage Can Keeps Your Trash Nice and Frosty

This Trash Collecting Robot Isn’t Quite Earth’s Lovable Savior, but Close

All-In-One Recycling Center Puts Everything in its Right Place

What is the Coolest Gadget You Have Ever Found on the Sidewalk?

Build Your Own Mr. Fusion and Gasify Your Car With Garbage

Manson Is A Method Actor, Of Sorts

Biggest garbage dump: Oceans or Space?

Superbugs to Make Power from Poo

This Eco-Friendly Oven Stinks (Because It Runs On Garbage)

R2D2 Trash Can Gladly Accepts Your Garbage

Purdue University Develops Mr.Fusion, Finally

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