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Making fake meat in a lab sure isn’t easy, but 3D printing promises to revolutionize the process. The only downside: a 3D-printed hamburger will set you back $300,000. https://gizmodo.com/it-is-almost-impossible-to-create-fake-meat-5920351 Growing meat in the lab is a long-studied avenue of research. But now 3D printing could make the process quicker. The BBC explains: https://gizmodo.com/lab-grown-meat-its-whats-for-dinner-5804190 [I]nstead of…
They are in fact… snowflakes. From Tech News Daily: Researchers at the University of Utah have developed the Multi Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC), which uses three high-speed cameras triggered by infrared sensors to shoot flakes as they float to the ground, with exposures as quick as 1/25000 of a second. The device also measures the…
Forget the humble double helix: scientists from Cambridge University have now spotted four-stranded strings of DNA working inside human cells. The researchers have published a paper in Nature Chemistry which demonstrates the existence and function of quadruple helix human DNA. The researchers believe it might be related to cancer—and that understanding it could be key…
As digital displays are becoming more common than ever, good old-fashioned projectors are getting rarer and rarer. That includes the hulking beasts that are planetarium projectors, those often massive, rotating behemoths that spout out views of the entire sky. Fortunately, the antiquated gadgets have a home at the aptly named Planetarium Projector Museum. Maintained by…
These objects seems to vary from shapeless blob to chaotic scribble—but they are in fact short-lived structures that have been captured in fine 3D detail for the first time. Can you work out what they are? Sadly for you, we’re going to let you puzzle over the answer for a little while. To give you…
RIM’s Blackberry App World store is now Blackberry World—but it still doesn’t have any music or video (yet). [BB World]
Some good news: the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Atari Inc. is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which could see the retro computer game company live on. The filing will help free the company from French parent Atari SA, formerly Infogrames. Currently Atari Inc owes a huge chunk of cash to a company…
IBM predicts that 2013 will be the year of steampunk. Behind the curve, much? [IBM]
Noah Zerkin spotted Sergey Brin riding New York’s downtown 3 train last night—and the man from Google happened to have a pair of the company’s glasses strapped to his face. Quite why he needs to wear them on public transport is unclear, but combined with his outfit they make him look like he should feature…
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has admitted that he is considering selling the company’s hardware division after the launch of new OS BlackBerry 10. In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Heins openly voiced the possibility of selling off RIM’s hardware division—adding weight to last year’s rumors. From the interview (translation): https://gizmodo.com/rumor-rim-to-sell-handset-business-5920980 This strategic review…
Android Police is reporting that this leaked photo depicts HTC’s rumored new flagship phone, the M7. It doesn’t match up with previous leaked renders—but these seem more plausible. https://gizmodo.com/htc-s-next-android-flagship-to-pack-a-1-7ghz-quad-core-5969336 Primarily, that’s because the phone in these images doesn’t depart much from HTC’s existing style: a neat black rectangle, matt black back, and overall fairly reminiscent…
Sony has announced a new high-spec Android tablet, the Xperia Tablet Z. It offers up some meaty internals—but the most exciting news is the svelte package into which the hardware is crammed. The 10.1-inch tablet packs a 1,920 x 1,200 screen, Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, 8.1-megapixel camera, NFC, LTE, and…
LG’s admitted that Nexus 4 demand was 10 times higher than Google expected. That’ll explain the shortage. [CNET]
Strapping a GoPro to your dog is just bound to work out great. You may remember that classic, wonderful dog park footage from a few months back. Now BimmerSchwag has taken the same concept and upped the ante, making use of that GoPro’s waterproof housing during a game of tennis ball pool fetch. https://gizmodo.com/what-playing-in-a-dog-park-looks-like-from-a-dogs-point-5879999 Having…
Truth be told, I’m actually not a huge fan of Fugazi. I can get down with some Minor Threat, and The Evens, but Fugazi never really clicked with me. That is, except for “Bed For the Scraping.” Now, this is a song I can groove to. Off Fugazi’s critically acclaimed 1995 record Red Medicine just…
Samsung? Lenovo? Sony? Dell? Nah. This was the favorite computer of Kim Jong-Il, the dead North Korean dictator, keen observer and purveyor of all things fattening: an Apple MacBook Pro 15. Sophie Schmidt—daughter of Eric, Google’s president—had the unique opportunity to visit the Bigass Leader’s mausoleum, the heavily guarded building that used to be his…
Real arcades are slowly becoming a thing of the past. When was the last time you saw a pinball machine in the wild, flashing and dinging its siren call for quarters? Fortunately there are reservations for the endangered little big guys, and Pins and Needles is one you’ll wish was in a warehouse in your…
The Antarctic? The top of Mount Everest? The bottom of the ocean? In the middle of your parent’s kitchen during a political argument on any given holiday? All good guesses, but none are quite right. Between environmental hazards, plagues, and other human beings, the world is a dangerous place, sure. But what locale takes the…
Wi-Fi’s all around you. Chances are you’re in the middle of a big blanket of it right now, as you’re reading this. But what does it look like? Well, nothing; it’s invisible. But if it wasn’t it might look a little something like this. Austrian artist and architect Peter Jellitsch is fascinated by the invisible…
Eric Schmidt’s trip to North Korea in order to spread the good word about open Internet has been kind of strange from the start. Today, he posted on Google+ how he warned the country that it might be left behind. You know, Internet. Politics. All that jazz. Schmidt’s daughter, who accompanied him on the “vacation”…
