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Watch a Japanese Hand Plane Shave Wood Impossibly Thin

Japanese hand planes or kannas are remarkable tools that can shave off layers of wood so ridiculously thin that they look like tissue paper. The wood shaving in the GIF above is only 8 microns thick which almost sounds like an impossible measurement because even human hair has a diameter of about 50 microns. Kannas…

Sploid Casey Chan Oct 20

The Best Thin Gaming Laptop For Every Need

Just when did gaming laptops get so thin and powerful? A year ago, thin meant weak—but today there are tons of sleek notebooks that can play the latest PC games at maximum levels of detail. I decided to discover which ones are actually worth your money. If you want to play intensive video games, all…

Tech News The Gizmodo Staff May 17

You Can Now Buy Dell’s Incredible Android Tablet

Remember when Dell made Android tablets interesting again? Four months later, you can finally buy the Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet. While it’s still listed as “coming soon” on Dell’s website, Best Buy is now carrying the slate which wowed us with a beautiful screen, crazy camera, and ultra-thin chassis. It’ll set you back $400.…

Tech News Sean Hollister Jan 6

Sony’s Flagship 4K TV Is Thinner Than an iPhone 6 Plus

I mean, sure, technically we knew that Sony’s flagship XBR-X900C Ultra HD television was a ridiculous 4.9mm thin the moment Sony announced it. Technically. But it’s another thing entirely to see what that means: it’s thinner than an iPhone 6 Plus. Of course it is, you’re saying. The iPhone 6 Plus is 7.1mm thick! It’s…

Television Sean Hollister Jan 5

Asus Makes Transforming Windows Tablets Way Less Chunky

Asus popularized the cheap detachable laptop, but they’ve always been chunky little things. Not the Transformer Book Chi. Asus claims the new 10.1-inch T100 Chi is the thinnest Windows tablet ever made. And the 12.5-inch T300 Chi—combined with its keyboard—is now thinner than a MacBook Air. Sure, thin isn’t everything, and even the 7.2mm thick…

Tech News Sean Hollister Jan 5

While You Weren’t Looking, Dell Made Android Tablets Interesting Again

Apple! Apple! Apple! Yesterday, you were probably too busy gawking at Cupertino’s precious new watch and giant smartphones to notice anything else that happened in the world of technology. There’s no shame in that. But if you were paying attention to the 2014 Intel Developers Conference in San Francisco, you might have gotten a glimpse…

Gadgets Sean Hollister Sep 10

LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI

Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2,560 x 1,440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 20

LG’s World’s Slimmest 1080p Display Is Impossibly Thin

With everyone racing to become the thinnest, slimmest thing in technology, LG just showed off how skinny it has gotten. Millimeters matter man! LG’s new 1080p HD display is perfect for giganto smartphones at 5.2-inches big and just 2.2mm thin. On top of that, it only has a 2.3mm bezel which makes it practically floating…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 10

21-inch iMac 2012 (Thin) Review: Looks Only Get You So Far

Gadgets get thinner. Apple’s gadgets more than most. That’s just the natural order of things. But while thin and light are two of the chief virtues of mobile, and prettier is always better, the new deskbound iMac has to prove it’s more than just a diet plan. Design The iMac’s new, thinner design is the…

Reviews Kyle Wagner Dec 27

Trend: Apple Repeating Tablet Dominance In the Ultraportable Laptop Space

Laptop manufacturers better hope the Samsung Series 9 and Asus UX21 and UX31 live up to the ultraportable hype, because the numbers say Apple is set to dominate the “light laptop” space just as they’ve done with tablets. [CNET]

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 7

Nuance Voice Control Spied Alongside MacBook Air Refresh In Latest Apple Leak

Long gone are the days of the airtight Apple ship. In its place, in the past and today, especially, are leaks like these: Advanced Nuance voice recognition could be included in iOS 5 after all, and…new MacBook Airs, oh my! The MacBook Air refresh is the simpler leaks of the two, with oft-sought out and…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jun 12

A Galaxy, Edgewise

This segment of light suspended in space is actually an entire galaxy, spanning 35,000 light years across and containing billions of stars. We just happen to be looking at it almost perfectly edge-on. The edgewise shot of NGC 4452, a disk galaxy in the nearby Virgo Cluster, was shot recently by the Hubble Space Telescope.…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert Nov 9

Seagate’s Momentus Thin Drive is the World’s Thinnest 2.5″ Netbook Drive

At a mere 7 millimeters in height, Seagate’s Momentus Thin drive will be the slimmest 2.5″ hard drive on the market. Not only that, but supposedly it will also be one of the lowest-priced storage options for ultra-portables and netbooks. We don’t have details as to exactly how much these drives will cost or when…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 14

Rumored Samsung 6.5mm HDTV Prototype Could Be Thinnest LCD TV Yet

PC World is reporting today that Samsung has managed to cram an LED backlit HDTV into a housing that’s no more than 6.5mm thick. Don’t sneeze or breathe too hard around this one. We’ve previously covered the Samsung HDTV sets that are scheduled to make an appearance in 2009, but this super svelte one wasn’t…

Gadgets Jack Loftus Jan 4

Dell ‘Adamo’ Could Be Lighter, Thinner Than MacBook Air

According to this teaser site and this fashion site, Dell has a laptop coming that may be both lighter and thinner than the MacBook Air. The NYT visually quotes Tatelman, Dell’s VP of consumer sales of marketing, with a reaction of his “mouth [gaping] open and his eyes [darting] away.” Tatelman followed with: I think…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 18

Fuel Cells To Go Bendy, Fit Inside Gadget Corners

Fuel cell tech is literally just around the corner from being inside many of our gadgets, and with this new design it could allow for some unusually-shaped gizmos. A company called MyFC is showing these bendy, flexible hydrogen-powered cells that can be draped over the interior curved surfaces of a gadget in a way that…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 11

Logitech’s Illuminated Keyboard Is Its Skinniest Yet

Logitech’s last keyboard offering was the wireless touchpad diNovo Edge,Mac Edition, and though this new keyboard is neither wireless nor touchpad-enabled, it’s got two things going for it: it’s got back-lit keys for night typing, and it’s just 0.37-inches deep. That’s skinny, though not quite Apple keyboard aluminum skinny. Due in October in the US…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 2

Sony’s KDL-40ZX1, a 40-inch LCD HDTV Only 9.9mm Thin

Sony Japan’s ZX1 series 40-inch display is only 9.9mm thick at its narrowest, and 26 pounds. The display itself has only 1 HDMI port, while a wireless box can send the 120Hz, 1080p display up to 1080i images over a 5GHz channel many suspect is WHDM. That external port box will have 3 HDMI, 2…

Tech News Brian Lam Aug 28

Video Of Pioneer Kuro Concept Plasma Shows How Thin This Thing Really Is

We showed you pictures. We stacked it up against an iPhone. But nothing can do this beautiful plasma justice like a good old-fashioned pan around the set. Enjoy. https://gizmodo.com/pioneer-9mm-thin-concept-plasma-ogled-from-all-angles-341431

Television Benny Goldman Jan 7

Reachgood PMP So Thin It Should Be Called RAZR

This personal music player (PMP) from Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Reachgood Digital is so thin, if you hold it sideways it’s almost invisible. Its 5.5mm-thin stainless steel case makes it resemble a razor blade. But it’s not thin on features, playing MP3 and WMA files, and also handling mp4 audio and video on its 1.8-inch screen.…

Tech News Charlie White Nov 9

Thin

Watch a Japanese Hand Plane Shave Wood Impossibly Thin

The Best Thin Gaming Laptop For Every Need

You Can Now Buy Dell’s Incredible Android Tablet

Sony’s Flagship 4K TV Is Thinner Than an iPhone 6 Plus

Asus Makes Transforming Windows Tablets Way Less Chunky

While You Weren’t Looking, Dell Made Android Tablets Interesting Again

LG Made a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 Smartphone Display with 538 PPI

LG’s World’s Slimmest 1080p Display Is Impossibly Thin

21-inch iMac 2012 (Thin) Review: Looks Only Get You So Far

Trend: Apple Repeating Tablet Dominance In the Ultraportable Laptop Space

Nuance Voice Control Spied Alongside MacBook Air Refresh In Latest Apple Leak

A Galaxy, Edgewise

Seagate’s Momentus Thin Drive is the World’s Thinnest 2.5″ Netbook Drive

Rumored Samsung 6.5mm HDTV Prototype Could Be Thinnest LCD TV Yet

Dell ‘Adamo’ Could Be Lighter, Thinner Than MacBook Air

Fuel Cells To Go Bendy, Fit Inside Gadget Corners

Logitech’s Illuminated Keyboard Is Its Skinniest Yet

Sony’s KDL-40ZX1, a 40-inch LCD HDTV Only 9.9mm Thin

Video Of Pioneer Kuro Concept Plasma Shows How Thin This Thing Really Is

Reachgood PMP So Thin It Should Be Called RAZR

Stephen Colbert Adds Yet Another Genre Voiceover Cameo to His Belt

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