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The Pasta-Shaped Radio Waves That Promise Infinite Bandwidth

Try sending a text message at midnight on New Year’s Eve, and you’ll struggle: there’s too much data and not enough bandwidth to cope with it. But now a team of researchers has developed twisted radio waves inspired by pasta, which could allow a “potentially infinite” number of channels to be broadcast simultaneously. It sounds…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 2

How Tomatoes Could Curb Cancer in Italy

I lived in Italy for nearly 20 years, and it’s difficult to imagine Italians tolerating anyone tampering with their precious tomato, the main ingredient in their all-important “gravy.” But they seem to be O.K. with the newfangled “Realtomato” showing up in their caprese salads and Margherita pizzas. That’s because studies show the hybrid tomato prevents…

Tech News Nicole Martinelli Feb 6

And now, the mathematics of pasta shapes

Have you ever wanted to know the mathematical formula for fusilli, or wondered about the geometric calculation for quadrefiore? Well wonder no more, for London architects Marco Guarnieri and George L. Legendre have written Pasta by Design. The pasta-taxonomy is a culinary/mathematical mish-mash, featuring photographs of 92 pasta shapes; the mathematical equations that describe their…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 18

The spaghetti mystery that baffled a Manhattan Project scientist

Why do strands of spaghetti so rarely snap into only two pieces? Take a look at the solution to a mystery that, no fooling, baffled famed physicist Richard Feynman. Take a spaghetti strand by both ends. Slowly and smoothly bend it farther and farther until it snaps. Count the pieces. There could be three pieces,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Aug 15

Japanese Pasta Fork Will Change How You Eat Pasta Forever

Twirling your pasta around a fork is an artform. Some people twirl it on the side of the bowl, other use spoons and people who are lazy and unimaginative cut their pasta up. And now, from Japan, a new option. This crazy fork has a “thumb” of sorts to snag your past and keep it…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 29

Lifehacker’s Top 10 Instructional Cooking Videos

Lifehacker rounded up 10 of the best short cooking videos around, ranging from simple instruction (how to slice a mango, chop an onion) to more subtle tips like how to properly sauce pasta (it’s different than you think). That mango video actually saved me a ton of time, since I used to just slice willy-nilly…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 29

Spaghetti Measure Ensures That You Make the Right Amount Every Time

This spaghetti measure is really clever: grab a bundle of dry pasta and it’ll measure out 1-4 servings using its aperture-like ring. No more wasted pasta or still-hungry regrets. [A+R Store via 7 Gadgets]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 6

Auto-Turning Pasta Fork for the Stupid and Lazy

Tired of twisting that fork to wrap the pasta around it? The Pasta Fork solves that problem for you. You just put your fingers at the top, push down and its corkscrew design makes the pasta twirl around its tines automagically. If you have sticky fingers, it might not work too well, so you might…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 5

Japan Watch: Perfect Three-Minute Pasta Gadget

We’ve been making spaghetti the retarded way for years, but we should have known the Japanese thought up a better, and faster, way of doing everything. First, grab this gadget. Then, all you have to do is stick in the pasta, some salt, and pour in boiled water. Cap it, wait for three minutes, and…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 24

The Pasta-Shaped Radio Waves That Promise Infinite Bandwidth

How Tomatoes Could Curb Cancer in Italy

And now, the mathematics of pasta shapes

The spaghetti mystery that baffled a Manhattan Project scientist

Japanese Pasta Fork Will Change How You Eat Pasta Forever

Lifehacker’s Top 10 Instructional Cooking Videos

Spaghetti Measure Ensures That You Make the Right Amount Every Time

Auto-Turning Pasta Fork for the Stupid and Lazy

Japan Watch: Perfect Three-Minute Pasta Gadget

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